Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“83 bis agreement” means an agreement entered into under Article 83 bis of the Chicago Convention;

“aerodrome” means any defined area of land or water in Singapore used, or intended or designed to be used, either wholly or partly, for the landing, taking off, movement, or servicing of aircraft, and includes any buildings, installations, and equipment on or adjacent to any such area used in connection with the aerodrome or its administration;

“aeronautical product” means anything that comprises or is intended to comprise any part of an aircraft or that is or is intended to be installed in or fitted or supplied to an aircraft, and includes fuel and other consumable items necessary for the operation of the aircraft;

“Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore” or “AAIB” means the department established under section 51;

“aircraft” means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air otherwise than by the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth;

“airport” includes an aerodrome;

“air traffic” means all aircraft in flight or operating on any manoeuvring area of an aerodrome;

“air traffic control service” means a service provided for the purposes of —

“air traffic service” means —

“Authority” means the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore established under section 4 of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009;

“auxiliary police officer” means a person appointed as such under Part 9 of the Police Force Act 2004;

“aviation-related service” means any equipment, facility, or service (including any air traffic service) operated in support of or in conjunction with the civil aviation system;

“aviation safety instrument” means any licence, permit, certificate, authorisation, approval or other document issued under or by virtue of this Act to, or in respect of, any person, aircraft, aerodrome, aeronautical procedure, aeronautical product, or aviation-related service, but does not include an airport licence within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009 or a permit mentioned in section 32(5)(b)(ii) or 33(5)(b)(ii);

“aviation safety subsidiary legislation” means any order made under section 8 or any regulations made under section 9;

“aviation security” means a combination of measures and human and material resources intended to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference;

“aviation security inspector” means a police officer or an individual who is appointed under section 17A(8) as an aviation security inspector, and includes the NCASA;

“aviation security regulation” means any regulation made under section 69 for the purposes of Part 2B, and includes any order made by the Minister before 1 April 2014 in relation to aviation security until revoked;

“Chicago Convention” means —

“command and control link” means the data link between a remotely piloted aircraft and a remote pilot station for the purposes of managing the flight of the remotely piloted aircraft;

“competent security officer” means any public officer designated as such by the Minister charged with the responsibility for homefront security;

“conduct” means any act or omission;

“Contracting State” means any country which is a party to the Chicago Convention;

“controlled area” means any area declared to be a controlled area under section 72;

“controlled flight” means any flight that is provided with or required by or under this Act to make use of an air traffic control service;

“crew”, in relation to an aircraft, includes every person having duties or functions on board the aircraft during the flight of the aircraft in connection with the flying or safety of the aircraft;

“damage or loss” includes, in relation to a person, loss of life and personal injury;

“designated person” means a person designated in voluntary reporting rules for the purposes of the voluntary reporting scheme established by those rules;

“Director-General of Civil Aviation” means the Chief Executive of the Authority and includes any individual appointed by the Authority to act in the place of the Chief Executive;

“erection of a structure” includes an addition or alteration to an existing structure;

“foreign aviation authority” means the competent authority responsible for regulating civil aviation in a country or territory other than Singapore;

“foreign registered aircraft” means an aircraft registered in a country or territory other than Singapore;

“foreign state aircraft” means aircraft used in the military, customs or police services of a country or territory other than Singapore;

“goods” and “articles” include mails and animals;

“Government aerodrome” means an aerodrome under the control of the Government and a naval, military or air force aerodrome;

“ICAO” means the International Civil Aviation Organization established under the Chicago Convention, and includes any successor to that Organization;

“Inspector of Accidents” or “Inspector” means any individual appointed as an Inspector of Accidents under section 51(1), and includes the Chief Inspector of Accidents appointed under section 51(2);

“land” includes land covered with water and any right in or over land;

“maintenance”, in relation to any aircraft or aeronautical product, means any task required to ensure, or that could affect, the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aeronautical product, including any one or combination of overhaul, repair, inspection, replacement of an aeronautical product, modification or defect rectification;

“manoeuvring area” means that part of an aerodrome to be used for the take‑off and landing of aircraft and for the surface movement of aircraft associated with take‑off and landing, but excludes any area set aside for loading, unloading or maintenance of aircraft;

“military aircraft” means aircraft used in the military services of any country or territory, and includes aircraft of any part of the Singapore Armed Forces (including any aircraft that is being constructed for any part of the Singapore Armed Forces);

“National Civil Aviation Security Authority” or “NCASA” means the National Civil Aviation Security Authority appointed under section 64;

“National Civil Aviation Security Programme” or “NCASP” means the National Civil Aviation Security Programme required to be established for the purposes of Part 2B;

“navigation installation” means any building, facility, work, apparatus, equipment, or place, (whether or not part of an aerodrome) that is intended to assist in the control of air traffic or as an aid to air navigation, and includes any land adjacent to any such building, facility, work, apparatus, equipment, or place, and used in connection with any such building, facility, work, apparatus, equipment, or place;

“operate”, in relation to an aircraft, means to fly or use the aircraft, or to cause the aircraft to fly, be used, or be in any place, whether or not a person is present with the aircraft;

“operator”, for an unmanned aircraft, means a person engaged in, or offering to engage in, the operation of the unmanned aircraft, and where the unmanned aircraft is a remotely piloted aircraft, includes —

“pilot-in-command”, in relation to an aircraft, means —

“remotely piloted aircraft” means an unmanned aircraft that is operated using a remotely piloted aircraft system;

“remotely piloted aircraft system” or “RPAS”, for a remotely piloted aircraft, means all of the following components: (a)the remotely piloted aircraft; (b)every remote pilot station associated with the remotely piloted aircraft in paragraph (a) containing the equipment used to pilot that aircraft;

“safety inspector” means a safety inspector appointed under section 13 and includes the Director‑General of Civil Aviation;

“security directive” means a security directive given by the NCASA under section 67;

“Singapore operator” means an operator of aircraft whose principal place of business or permanent residence is in Singapore;

“Singapore registered aircraft” means an aircraft registered in Singapore;

“state aircraft” means —

“State of Registry” means the State on whose register the aircraft is entered;

“State of the Operator” means the State in which the operator’s principal place of business is located or, if there is no such place of business, the operator’s permanent residence;

“structure” includes any house, warehouse, office, shop, school and any other building whether permanent or temporary and whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, fence, platform, staging, gatepost, pillar, paling, frame, hoarding, bridge, cable, wire or any other artificial obstruction raised above ground level;

“unmanned aircraft” means an aircraft that may be flown or used without any individual on board the aircraft to operate it;

“unmanned aircraft system” means an unmanned aircraft and its associated elements;

“voluntary reporting rules” means rules made under section 46;

“working day” means any day except Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.

Any reference in this Act to any country or territory is, unless the context otherwise requires, to be construed as including a reference to the territorial waters (if any) adjacent to that country or territory.