This Act may be cited as the Air Force Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Air Force Act, 1937 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Air Training Corps is hereby established as part of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The Air Training Corps shall consist of such cadets as are from time to time appointed as members of the Corps.

Members of the Air Training Corps shall not be required to serve beyond New Zealand.

All persons who, on the passing of this Act, are members of the body hitherto known as the Air Training Corps shall be deemed to become members of the Air Training Corps constituted under this section.

The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force is hereby established as part of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force shall consist of all women who are from time to time appointed or enlisted as members of that Force.

The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Board, appoint members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force to serve as officers and to hold such appointments as seem to him necessary, and may issue commissions to any such officers.

All women who, on the pasing of this Act, are members of the New Zealand Women’s Auxiliary Air Force constituted under the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Emergency Regulations 1942 shall be deemed to be members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force constituted under this section.

No member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force shall be required to serve beyond New Zealand without her consent.

The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Emergency Regulations 1942 are hereby revoked.

The Air Force Act (Imperial), and the Rules of Procedure thereunder, the King’s Regulations, and the Air Council Instructions for the time being respectively in force in relation to the Royal Air Force, shall apply with respect to members of the Air Training Corps and the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force only in such manner, to such extent, and subject to such adaptations and modifications as may from time to time be specified in regulations made under the principal Act.

Except as provided by this Act, and with the necessary modifications, the provisions of the principal Act shall apply to the Air Training Corps and the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force.

The term “airman” where used in the principal Act or in regulations made thereunder shall, unless a contrary intention appears, be deemed to include a member of the Air Training Corps or the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, as the case may be.

Where the Minister is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to do so, he may, by writing addressed to the Air Board, authorize the Air Force to operate aircraft for hire or reward.

Any authority given under this section may be subject to such conditions as the Minister thinks fit.

If, in the operation of any service provided under the authority of this section, the Air Force performs the functions of a common carrier, the Crown, in respect of that service, shall have the same liabilities, obligations, rights, and protection as in the case of a common carrier.

Any authority given under this section may authorize aircraft to operate beyond the territorial limits of New Zealand.