AIRLINES EQUIPMENT ACT 1974

No. 5 of 1974

An Act to amend the Airlines Equipment Act 1958-1973.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act maybe cited as the Airlines Equipment Act 1974.

(2) The Airlines Equipment Act 1958-1973 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Airlines Equipment Act 1958-1974.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions.

3. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from the definition of “aircraft capacity” the word “ton-miles” and substituting the word “tonne-kilometres”;

(b) by omitting from the definition of “revenue load factor” the words “ton-miles” and “ton-mile” (wherever occurring) and substituting the words “tonne-kilometres” and “tonne-kilometre”, respectively;

(c) by omitting from the definition of “revenue load factor” the words “two hundred pounds” and substituting the words “90 kilograms”; and

(d) by omitting the definition of “ton”.

Conditional Obligations of Commission and Company.

4. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) the word “ton-miles” and substituting the word “tonne-kilometres”.

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