Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Guns, Explosives and Weapons Control (Aviation Industry — Exemption) Order 2025

Regulation 5

Licence not needed for possessing aviation emergency and survival equipment

Subregulation 1

Any person who —

(a)

is an aircraft operator of an aircraft used to conduct an air service or aerial work operation;

(b)

conducts in Singapore any general aviation; or

(c)

provides in Singapore a course of training or instruction in flying an aircraft,is exempt from sections 22(1) and 24(1) of the Act for storing or having possession of, and for importing and exporting, any explosive substance or explosive device that is contained in any emergency and survival equipment which is carried on board the aircraft when the person is conducting the air service, aerial work operation or general aviation, or is providing that course of training or instruction.

Subregulation 2

Any individual who —

(a)

pilots an aircraft used to conduct any air service, aerial work operation or general aviation;

(b)

pilots an aircraft for the purpose of the individual —

(i)

receiving flight training; or

(ii)

taking a flight test for a pilot licence, or a pilot rating or endorsement on a pilot licence, for the individual; or

(c)

is a flight instructor or flight examiner onboard an aircraft piloted by another individual for the purpose of that other individual —

(i)

receiving flight training from the flight instructor; or

(ii)

taking a flight test for a pilot licence, or a pilot rating or endorsement on a pilot licence, under the flight examiner,is exempt from sections 22(1) and 24(1) of the Act for storing or having possession of any explosive substance or explosive device that is contained in any emergency and survival equipment which is carried on board the aircraft when the aircraft is in flight in connection with the conduct of the air service, aerial work operation or general aviation, or the conduct of the flight training or flight test, as the case may be.

Subregulation 3

For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) —

Definition

“emergency and survival equipment”, for an aircraft, means any of the following which is designed to be activated by an explosive substance or explosive device contained in the equipment and is required to be carried on board the aircraft in accordance with written law and, in the case of a foreign registered aircraft, also in accordance with the laws of its State of Registry:

(a)

any survival equipment and signalling devices appropriate to the areas to be overflown by the aircraft;

(b)

any distress signal;

(c)

any evacuation slide or life raft;

(d)

any parachute;

(e)

any seatbelt pretensioner for use in an aircraft that is of classification code 1.4 UN Number 0503;

Definition

“general aviation” means operating an aircraft other than for the purpose of an aerial work operation or an air service;

Definition

“pilot”, used as a verb, means —

(a)

to manipulate the flight controls of an aircraft during flight; or

(b)

to occupy a flight control seat in an aircraft during flight.

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