New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AIR TRANSPORT ACT 1964 - SECT 6

6 Consideration of applications for licences

(1) The Director-General may grant or refuse any application for a licence.

(2) A licence may be granted subject to or not subject to conditions.

(3) In deciding whether to grant or refuse a licence and the conditions, if any, subject to which it should be granted, the Director-General shall have regard to such of the following matters as seem appropriate and to no other matters:

(a) the needs, in relation to air transport services, of the public of New South Wales as a whole and of the public of any area or district to be served by the route or routes, or by any of the routes, specified in the application for the licence,

(c) the allocation of routes for public air transport services so as to foster as far as possible the existence of more than one airline operating in New South Wales capable of providing adequate and reasonable public air transport services within New South Wales and so as to discourage the development of any monopoly of public air transport services within New South Wales,

(d) where the applicant is an individual, the applicant’s character and suitability and fitness to hold the licence applied for and, where the applicant is a corporation, the character of the persons responsible for the management or conduct of the corporation and the suitability and fitness of the corporation to hold the licence applied for,

(f) the effect, if any, on the maintenance and orderly development of adequate and reasonable public air transport services within New South Wales, of the operation of aircraft by the applicant over the route or routes specified in the application,

(g) the effect, if any, on the economic development of, or on the environment in, any area within New South Wales, of the operation of aircraft by the applicant over the route or routes specified in the application,

(h) whether the applicant and the applicant’s aircraft, pilots and passengers will be adequately insured,

(i) the ownership of, or the extent of the applicant’s rights to operate, the aircraft to be used by the applicant.