1986 Ed.]

Civil Aviation (Aircraft Noise)

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that, until the Director revokes the direction, facilities for using the aerodrome are withheld to the extent specified in the direction from aircraft of which the person aforesaid is the operator and from his servants; and it shall be the duty of the aerodrome manager to comply with the direction:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall require the aerodrome manager to prevent an aircraft from landing at the aerodrome.

(3) Any notice published in pursuance of subsection (1) may contain such incidental or supplementary provisions as the Director considers appropriate.

(4) Any operator of an aircraft who fails to comply with any requirement of a notice under subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $50,000.

6. (1) If the Director considers it appropriate, for the purpose of avoiding, limiting or mitigating the effect of noise and vibration connected with the taking off or landing of aircraft at an aerodrome, to prohibit aircraft from taking off or landing, or to limit the number of occasions on which they may take off or land, at an aerodrome during certain periods, he may by notice in the Gazette-

(a) prohibit aircraft of descriptions specified in the notice from taking off or landing at the aerodrome (otherwise than in an emergency) during periods so specified;

(b) specify the maximum number of occasions on which aircraft of descriptions so specified may be permitted to take off or land at the aerodrome (otherwise than in an emergency) during periods so specified; or

(c) determine the persons who shall be entitled to arrange for aircraft of which they are the operators to take off or land at the aerodrome during the periods specified under paragraph (b) and, in respect of each of those persons, the number of occasions on which aircraft of a particular description of which he is the operator may take off or land at the aerodrome during those periods.

(2) Subject to subsection (3)(a) and (b) it shall be the duty of the aerodrome manager to secure that the prohibitions or restrictions relating to the aerodrome which are imposed by notice under subsection (1) are complied with.

(3) The following supplementary provisions shall have effect for the purposes of subsection (1)—

(a) nothing in that subsection shall require an aerodrome manager to prevent an aircraft from landing at the aerodrome;

(b) the Director may, by notice in writing to the aerodrome manager to which a notice under that subsection relates,

Restrictions on landing and take off.

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