New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry has issued a draft bill to provide a simplified approach for regulations pertaining to meet the current needs of the civil aviation sector. The proposed Draft Aircraft Bill, 2023, has been prepared after reviewing the existing Aircraft Act 1934.
The Civil Aviation Ministry has issued the Draft Aircraft Bill, 2023 on its website for publish consultations for a period of 30 days, according to a communication dated May 30.
The preamble to the Draft Aircraft Bill, 2023 stated that it aims to have an Act to make better provisions for regulation and control of the design, manufacture, possession, use, operation, sale, import and export of aircraft and for connected matters, and to remove the redundancies in the 1934 law.
“The existing Aircraft Act, 1934 has been reviewed and accordingly a bill providing for regulating provisions in a simplified manner, identifying existing redundancies and to provide for provisions to meet the current needs for regulation of civil aviation in a simplified language…,” the Civil Aviation Ministry said.
The draft bill provisions for creation of a Statutory body namely Bureau of Civil Aviation Security and the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau to discharge the regulatory and oversight function entrusted for implementation of the Standards and Recommended Practice (SARPs) as prescribed under Chicago Convention.
Citing the very dynamic nature of the civil aviation sector, experts welcomed the government’s move to bring a draft bill.
The Draft Bill 2023 is a more well defined document than the Aircraft Act, 1934, giving enough powers to administer the regulatory role to statutory bodies, such as the DGCA [Directorate General of Civil Aviation], meeting regulatory challenges in current scenarios, a civil aviation expert said.
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