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CAP. 312]

Civil Aviation (Aircraft Noise) (Certification) Regulations

[1987 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 103/87.

CIVIL AVIATION (AIRCRAFT NOISE) (CERTIFICATION) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 312, section 9)

[1 May 1987.]

Citation.

Interpretation.

Exemptions.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. These regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Aircraft Noise) (Certification) Regulations.

2. (1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"aircraft", except in regulation 3, means an aircraft to which section 3 of the Ordinance applies;

"Deputy Director" means the Deputy Director of Civil Aviation;

"noise certificate", in Part II of these regulations, means a noise certificate issued or to be issued by the Director;

"owner" means the person in whose name an aircraft is registered in its place of registration;

"relevant standards of noise", in relation to any aircraft, means the standards of noise expressed in the Annex to be applicable to aircraft of its type.

(2) Any function vested in the Director by these regulations, other than regulation 6 or 7, may be performed-

(a) by the Deputy Director; or

(b) by any public officer, or Airworthiness Surveyor of the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority attached to the Civil Aviation Department of the Government, who is authorized for the purpose by the Director or the Deputy Director,

3. (1) Section 3 of the Ordinance shall not apply to an aircraft which lands or takes off in Hong Kong-

(a) where this is necessary for the safety of any aircraft or any of its passengers;

(b) where, as a result of operational necessity, passengers or goods are being carried in that aircraft, being an aircraft of a type not normally used for that carriage, and the Director authorizes such aircraft to land or take off;

(c) while it is being tested with the permission of the Director for the purpose of determining whether the aircraft complies with the relevant standards of noise; or