Draft Rules - Aircraft (……. Amendment) Rules, 2019

No: ---- Dated: Aug, 14 2019

MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION 

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 14th August, 2019

G.S.R. 585(E).—The following draft of certain rules further to amend the Aircraft Rules, 1937, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5 of the Aircraft Act, 1934 (22 of 1934), is hereby published as required by section 14 of the said Act, for information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft rules will be taken into consideration after a period of thirty days from the date on which copies of the Gazette of India, in which this notification is published, are made available to the public; 

Objections or suggestions, if any, may be addressed to the Director-General of Civil Aviation, Opposite Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi-110003 or mailed to dgoffice.dgca@nic.in; 

Any objection or suggestion which may be received from any person with respect to the said draft rules before the expiry of the period specified above will be considered by the Central Government. 

Draft Rules

1. (1) These rules may be called the Aircraft (....... Amendment) Rules, 2019. 

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their final publication in the Official Gazette. 

2. In the Aircraft Rules, 1937, in rule 29B, after the first proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, 

namely:― 

"Provided further that the Pilot-in-Command may permit the use of mobile communication and internet services through Wi-Fi on board an aircraft certified by the Director-General for such services and subject to the procedures specified by the Director-General in that behalf."

[F. No. AV. 11012/103/2015-A] 

SHEFALI JUNEJA, Jt. Secy. 

Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, vide notification number V-26, dated the 23rd March, 1937 and last amended vide G.S.R. 468(E), dated the 25th June, 2019 published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i) dated the 2nd July, 2019.