Retrospective Release: Submission on Civil Aviation Bill, July 2019


On 13 May 2019 the Ministry of Transport (MoT) released an exposure draft of the proposed new Civil Aviation Bill, together with a commentary document. This post summarises ASMS’ submission on the exposure draft and links to our full submission. Most of the commentary below is from the executive summary of the submission. The full submission contains 28 detailed recommendations for change, some of which are points of detail but others of which go to the heart of the design of the aviation regulatory system.

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