The clever intellect at CASA way back in the days of the AyaToller identified a major safety issue with Charter Flights this lead to the prompt (14 years) implementation of 135 which has the purpose of removing such dubious or is it proven operations (commercial) from the Australian skies. Bruce Byron at least started it off again, but for some yet Unidentified reason the whole procedure stagnated, but now at least we are winning, bugger the poor passengers who were forced to fly with all those substandard operators for those years, but then in the end the sacrifice will be worth it? Unfortunately the scope of flights will have been severely reduced - unlimited landing sites to a couple of 100 - but imagine the safety now available, especially to those who no longer use Charter.
In 1998 at John Anderson's 2nd reading of the Bill, he happened to mention the intent to remove commercial from legislation. CASA was to concentrate on Safety. R206 happened to use the word commercial in classifying various modes of flight offered to the public. Was The minister's intention to just remove the word or was it for CASA to regulate safety. Why has it taken so long to invoke the Minister's orders. Refer to 2(b) and (c)
ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 13
Material that is part of an Act
************ (1)* All material from and including the first section of an Act to the end of:
******************** (a)* if there are no Schedules to the Act--the last section of the Act; or
******************** (b)* if there are one or more Schedules to the Act--the last Schedule to the Act;
is part of the Act.
************ (2)* The following are also part of an Act:
******************** (a)* the long title of the Act;
******************** (b)* any Preamble to the Act;
******************** (c)* the enacting words for the Act;
******************** (d)* any heading to a Chapter, Part, Division or Subdivision appearing before the first section of the Act.
The ministers speech is recorded in Hansard - I have it on another computer will let you find it for yourselves.
Safe skies are empty skies!