I know it might be perceived as throwing rocks from the sidelines, but if there‘s going to be more than a snowflake’s hope in hell of action out of this summit...
There’s a doing word (a ‘verb’) missing from (b) in the proposed amendment to section 9A of the Civil Aviation Act:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CIVIL AVIATION ACT
9A Performance of functions
(1) In exercising its powers and performing its functions, CASA must seek to achieve the highest level of safety in air navigation as well as:
(a) maintaining an efficient and sustainable Australian aviation industry, including a viable general aviation and training sector;
(b) the need for more people to benefit from civil aviation.
This is not a sentence: “In exercising its powers and performing its functions, CASA must seek to achieve the highest level of safety in in air navigation as well as ... the need for more people to benefit from civil aviation.”
Perhaps (b) should start with “taking account of” or “recognising”.
Or the whole thing could be drafted like this:
(1) In exercising its powers and performing its functions, CASA must regard:
(a) the efficiency and sustainability of civil aviation, including the efficiency and sustainability of Australian general aviation and Australian aviation training;
(b) the benefits, to Australia, of civil aviation; and
(c) the safety of air navigation,
as the most important considerations.