Civil Aviation Act 2010 · As enacted · Chapter VIII · Aircraft Operation
73. Air Operator Certificate
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No aircraft registered in Sri Lanka or any aircraft used by an operator licensed under this Act shall, on the basis of any lease, charter, interchange or similar arrangement, be operated other than under and in accordance with the terms of an Air Operator Certificate issued by the
Director General to the owner or operator of such aircraft.
Commercial air transport operations into or out of
Sri Lanka performed by a foreign air operator, shall be in accordance with the terms of a Foreign Air Operator
Certificate issued by the Director General to such foreign air operator. In issuing such a Certificate, the Director General shall ensure that such foreign air operator has been issued with a valid Air Operator Certificate or as equivalent in the country in which such foreign operator is carrying on business and further that adequate provision has been made by the authority who issued such Air Operator Certificate, to ensure that the foreign air operator conforms to and complies with the standards, practices and procedures set out in the
Convention and the Annexes to the Convention.
An Air Operator Certificate or a Foreign Air Operator
Certificate referred to in subsection (1) or (2), shall not be issued by the Director General, where an operator or owner of an aircraft or a foreign air operator, as the case may be, who applies for an Air Operator Certificate or a Foreign Air
Operator Certificate, as the case may be, poses or is likely to pose a threat to the national security of Sri Lanka or to international civil aviation.
The Director General shall on the payment of a prescribed fee, process an application made under subsection (1) or subsection (2), as the case may be, and shall for that purpose conduct such investigation as he may consider necessary, in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed, giving effect to the applicable standards and any associated requirements.
Every Air Operator Certificate and Foreign Air
Operator Certificate issued under this section, shall be subject to the operations specifications specified in the Certificate issued and to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed.
It shall be the obligation of the holder of such Certificate to ensure that operations are carried out in strict conformity with the operations specifications specified and such terms and conditions prescribed, and that such operations do not breach any requirements imposed under the provisions of this Act or any regulations, rules, implementing standards or directives issued thereunder or any obligations imposed upon Sri Lanka under any agreement entered into with any other country.
An Air Operator Certificate or a Foreign Air Operator
Certificate shall be valid for a period not exceeding one year from the date of its issue and may be renewed for a further period not exceeding one year in each case, provided that the requirements imposed for the holding such Certificate is maintained to the satisfaction of the Director General.
An operation of an aircraft, without a valid Air
Operator Certificate or a foreign Air Operator Certificate, as the case may be, issued under this section or in contravention of any terms or conditions of any such Certificate issued, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding the equivalent in Sri
Lanka Rupees of ten thousand SDR or per each day of the infraction.
Chapter IX
Commercial Air Transportation
Chapter X
Offences and Penalties
Chapter XI