Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2019

No. 99, 2019

An Act to amend the law relating to civil aviation, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Civil Aviation Act 1988

Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2019

No. 99, 2019

An Act to amend the law relating to civil aviation, and for related purposes

[Assented to 6 November 2019]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Civil Aviation Act 1988

1  At the end of section 9A

Add:

 (3) Subject to subsection (1), in developing and promulgating aviation safety standards under paragraph 9(1)(c), CASA must:

 (a) consider the economic and cost impact on individuals, businesses and the community of the standards; and

 (b) take into account the differing risks associated with different industry sectors.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 4 July 2019

House of Representatives on 24 October 2019]