REPUBLIC OF NAURU

AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1971

AIR NAVIGATION REGULATION 1973

IT IS NOTIFIED for general information that the Cabinet in exercise of its powers under Sention 34(1) of the Air Navigation Act 1971 cancelled Air Navigation Regulation No.112 and 113 and made new regulation in substitution thereof as set forth below:-

DANGEROUS GOODS

112 (1) In these Regulations “dangerous goods” means

(a) explosive substances;

(b) articles which by reason of their nature are liable to endanger the safety of an aircraft or persons on board the aircraft;

(c) any articles specified in the list of restricted articles in the IATA Regulations but not including any article referred to therein as "not restricted" if, any only if, they are packed in accordance with the packing procedures prescribed in the said Regulations;

(d) any article having the same or analogous properties to any of those referred to in (c) above; and

(e) any article declared by the Authority by notice in the gazette to be a dangerous good for the purpose of these Regulations.

"IATA" Regulations means the Dangerous Goods Regulations, they are in force from time to time, made and published by the International Air Transport Association and which are based upon the provisions of Annex 18 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago) 1944 and the associated Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air adopted from time to time by the Council of ICAO.

(2) No aircraft shall carry any dangerous goods except as provided herein.

(3) No person shall carry on board, or attempt to have carried or placed on board, an aircraft any dangerous goods.

(4) The provisions of this Regulation 112 shall not apply to any particular goods, which would but or the provisions; f this clause be dangerous goods, if written approval has been given by the Authority to the carriage of dangerous goods specified the approval.

(5) The Authority may not give consent to the carriage of any dangerous goods unless the provisions of the 1ATA Regulations have been complied with or unless the approval requires that the IATA Regulation be complied with.

(6) All owners and operators of aircraft must ensure that regular, adequate and effective training is given to all flight crew and cargo and passenger handling staff in the identification and handling of dangerous goods and of these Regulations and the IATA Regulations.

(7) All shipping and forwarding agents shall ensure that the provisions of these Regulations and of the IATA Regulations are brought to the notice of all staff employed by them and to the notice of intended shippers of goods on aircraft. It shall not be a defence for any shipper or forwarding agent to allege that he or his employees agents or contractors were not aware that any goods were wholly or partly dangerous goods.

PENALTY - 3 Months Imprisonment or $500 fine or both.

"CARRIAGE OF FIREARMS"

113. (1) No person including a flight crew member shall except with the written permission of the Authority, carry in or have in his or her possession in an aircraft, any firearm.

(2) Nothing in this Regulation shall be deemed prevent the carriage of any unloaded firearm as personal baggage or as general cargo:

Provided that the pilot in command of the aircraft is notified that the firearm is on board and that the same is stowed in a hold which is inaccessible during the flight from the passenger cabin.

PENALTY: 3 Months Imprisonment or $500 fine or both.

DATED this 23rd Day of the Month of November, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety.

T.W.STAR
SECRETARY TO CABINET/
ACTING CHIEF SECRETARY

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