CIVIL AVIATION (CARRIERS' LIABILITY) ACT 1961 - SECT 8

CIVIL AVIATION (CARRIERS' LIABILITY) ACT 1961 - SECT 8

8 .         Administration of the applied provisions as Commonwealth laws

        (1)         It is the intention of Parliament that the applied provisions should be administered and enforced as if they were provisions applying as laws of the Commonwealth instead of being provisions applying as laws of the State.

        (2)         To that end —

            (a)         Commonwealth authorities have the same powers to enforce the applied provisions as they have to enforce the Commonwealth Act and the Commonwealth Regulations;

            (b)         the laws of the Commonwealth apply to offences against the applied provisions as if they were offences against the Commonwealth Act or the Commonwealth Regulations; and

            (c)         the laws of the State do not apply to offences against the applied provisions.

        (3)         In the application of provisions of the Commonwealth Act and the Commonwealth Regulations under this Act, any function or power conferred on a Commonwealth authority by or under those provisions may be exercised or performed (in respect of carriage to which this Act applies and matters connected with that carriage) by that Commonwealth authority.

        [Section 8 inserted: No. 80 of 1996 s. 7.]