S.I. No. 206/1997:

AIR NAVIGATION AND TRANSPORT (APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS TO STATE AIRCRAFT) (MINISTERIAL) ORDER, 1997.

AIR NAVIGATION AND TRANSPORT (APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS TO STATE AIRCRAFT) (MINISTERIAL) ORDER, 1997.

I, ALAN M. DUKES, Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Sections 3 (2) and 9 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1946 (No. 23 of 1946), as amended, extended or adapted, and the Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order, 1987 ( S.I. No. 92 of 1987 ), the Tourism and Transport (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 1991 ( S.I. No. 25 of 1991 ), and the Tourism, Transport and Communications (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1993 ( S.I. No. 17 of 1993 ), hereby--

( a ) order that the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications may make regulations as appear to the Minister to be necessary or convenient for carrying out the Chicago Convention and for giving effect thereto or to any of the provisions thereof, and

( b ) direct--

(i) that Section 5 (1) of the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1946 , as amended (and Section 5 (3), to the extent of authorising the Minister to make regulations for that purpose), and

(ii) any regulations made pursuant to Section 5 (3) of that Act, to the extent that those regulations so provide.

shall apply to State aircraft,

and, in pursuance of Section 5 (3) of that Act, authorise the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications to make regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Order.

This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation and Transport (Application of Regulations to State Aircraft) (Ministerial) Order, 1997.

GIVEN under my Hand, this 12th day of May, 1997.

ALAN M. DUKES,

Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications.