Wellington International Airport Bylaws Approval Order 1995

Reprint
as at 10 May 2011

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Wellington International Airport Bylaws Approval Order 1995

(SR 1995/197)

Catherine A Tizard, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 25th day of September 1995

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Transport.

Pursuant to section 9 of the Airport Authorities Act 1966, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

Order

1 Title

  • This order may be cited as the Wellington International Airport Bylaws Approval 1995.

2 Approval of bylaws of Wellington International Airport

  • The bylaws made on 25 July 1995 by Wellington International Airport Limited and set out in the Schedule are hereby approved.

Schedule
Wellington International Airport bylaws

Pursuant to section 9 of the Airport Authorities Act 1966, Wellington International Airport Limited hereby makes the following bylaws.

Bylaws

1 Short Title and commencement

  • (1) These bylaws may be cited as the Wellington International Airport Bylaws.

    (2) These bylaws shall come into force on the 28th day after the date on which these bylaws are approved by the Governor-General by Order in Council.

2 Interpretation

  • In these bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    aircraft means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air otherwise than by the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth

    aircraft park means an area within the airport that is made available for the parking or storage of aircraft

    airport has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Wellington Airport Act 1990; and includes all land subsequently acquired and designated for airport purposes

    airport official means the chief executive and any person appointed or authorised by the company or the chief executive to assist in the management or control of persons and property at the airport

    airport road means any area within the airport made available by the company for the movement, or standing, or parking of motor vehicles; and includes a road as defined in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998

    apron means those parts of the airport that are intended to accommodate aircraft for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or cargo, refuelling, parking or maintenance

    authorised vehicle means a vehicle authorised by the chief executive to enter and remain in a restricted area

    chief executive means the person from time to time appointed by the company to that office; and includes that person’s deputy or authorised representative

    company means Wellington International Airport Limited

    fuel handling means—

    • (a) the fuelling and refuelling of aircraft:

    • (b) the drainage of fuel and oil and fuel and oil wastes:

    • (c) the management of fuel and oil and fuel and oil wastes

    hangar means a building or installation used for the storage, or shelter, or repair of aircraft

    manoeuvring area means that part of the airport used for the taking-off and landing of aircraft and the movement of aircraft associated with taking-off and landing; but does not include loading or unloading areas and areas set aside for aircraft maintenance

    motor vehicle means a motor vehicle as defined in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998; but does not include an aircraft

    movement area means any part of the airport that is intended for the movement of aircraft on the ground; and includes the manoeuvring area, maintenance areas, and aprons

    parking, in relation to—

    • (i) any part of an airport road where parking, is governed by parking metres, means the stopping or standing of a vehicle for a period exceeding 5 minutes:

    • (ii) any other part of an airport road, means the stopping or standing of a vehicle

    and park has a corresponding meaning

    parking space means a space or section marked off for parking a motor vehicle

    person includes a body of persons whether corporate or unincorporate

    publicly notified means publicly notified as defined by section 2 of the Local Government Act 1974

    restricted area means the movement area and any other part of the airport to which entry by members of the public is prohibited or restricted pursuant to these bylaws; but does not include any area (other than the movement area) to which entry by members of the public is subject to payment of a fee or charge

    vehicle means a vehicle as defined in section 2(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998; and includes a large passenger service vehicle and a small passenger service vehicle.

    Schedule bylaw 2 airport road: amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 100(3) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

    Schedule bylaw 2 motor vehicle: amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 100(3) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

    Schedule bylaw 2 vehicle: amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 100(3) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

Part 1
General

3 Animals

  • (1) No person shall bring an animal or bird into the airport unless the animal or bird is—

    • (a) to be delivered to a person authorised to accept it under a contract of carriage with an airline; and

    • (b) confined so as to make it impossible for it to escape; and

    • (c) under proper control and properly cared for.

    (2) Nothing in this bylaw applies to—

    • (a) a guide dog engaged in guiding a blind person and kept under restraint by harness; or

    • (b) a dog under the control of a constable or customs officer and being used in the course of duty.

    Schedule bylaw 3(2)(b): amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(a)(iv) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).

4 Area control

  • (1) For the purposes of this bylaw, the company may from time to time designate areas or places at the airport to which entry by members of the public is prohibited or restricted and may prescribe conditions of entry.

    (2) Every such area or place shall be indicated by conspicuous signs or notices.

    (3) No person shall enter or remain in a restricted area unless that person—

    • (a) is authorised to do so by the company; and

    • (b) complies with any conditions imposed by the company.

    (4) Any airport official may require any person who is at any time in a restricted area in breach of this bylaw to leave the area and that person shall do so immediately.

5 Prohibition against smoking and flames

  • (1) The company may from time to time, prescribe an area or areas within the airport in which smoking is prohibited and shall erect or install a warning device or notices, in letters of a size that may be easily read, containing the words “No Smoking” together with such other details as may be necessary.

    (2) The company may from time to time prescribe an area or areas within the airport in which lighted and naked flames are prohibited and shall install a warning notice or notices to define the area or areas.

6 Special events

  • (1) No person shall within the airport, hold or participate in any reception, parade, exhibition, display, demonstration, protest march, or organised assembly unless:

    • (a) it takes place in a room or area approved by the chief executive for the purpose; and

    • (b) a written permit for it has first been obtained from the chief executive.

    (2) No person shall conduct any such event in contravention of the terms of the permit.

Part 2
Roads and motor vehicles

7 Airport roads

  • (1) The company may, from time to time, make any area within the airport available as an airport road.

    (2) The company may, in relation to an airport road or part of the road, from time to time,—

    • (a) open the road or part of it to members of the public generally or a specified class or specified classes or persons:

    • (b) close the road or any part of it:

    • (c) revoke or vary the right of members of the public generally or a specified class or specified classes of persons to use the road or any part of it:

    • (d) declare that the road or any part of it is no longer available for use as an airport road:

    • (e) alter the area, size, or location of the road or any part of it:

    • (f) restrict traffic movement to one direction only:

    • (g) set aside any part of the road for use at all times or during specified times as a loading zone for vehicles loading or unloading passengers or goods or as a place where such vehicles may wait between trips:

    • (h) set aside any part of the road for the parking of motor vehicles subject to any prohibitions, limitations and restrictions as the company may from time to time impose.

    (3) The company may, from time to time, impose prohibitions, limitations and restrictions on the operation, stopping, standing, or parking of motor vehicles on any airport road or any part of it.

    (4) The company shall erect notices or signs governing the use of airport roads in a manner set out in the Traffic Regulations 1976 and all prohibitions, limitations and restrictions imposed on the use of airport roads, whether by these bylaws or by the company or otherwise, shall be indicated by signs installed or marked out by the company in accordance with those regulations.

8 Compliance with directions and signs

  • Every driver and every person who is in charge of a motor vehicle shall comply with any lawful direction for the regulation of traffic given by a constable, or airport official, and with every traffic sign, directional indicator, line, dome, zone or marking laid down, placed or made at the airport.

    Schedule bylaw 8: amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).

9 Stopping and standing of vehicles on airport road

  • No person who is the driver, or person in charge, of any vehicle shall drive, stop, stand, or park that vehicle on any airport road in contravention of any prohibition, limitation or restriction imposed and indicated from time to time by any sign, notice or warning.

10 Speed

  • (1) The company may, from time to time, restrict the speed at which vehicles may be driven at any locality at the airport.

    (2) No person shall drive a motor vehicle, other than an ambulance, Police, or fire vehicle on an urgent mission, on an airport road, at a speed in excess of 50 kilometres per hour or, where any other speed has been prescribed by the company for any locality and notified by appropriate and conspicuous signs, at the speed in excess of the speed prescribed.

11 Removal of vehicles

  • (1) The chief executive may remove, or have removed, any motor vehicle that has been—

    • (a) abandoned; or

    • (b) left at the airport in contravention of any prohibition or restriction imposed by these bylaws or made pursuant to these bylaws.

    (2) The chief executive may deal with the vehicle in the same manner as if it had been abandoned on an airport road.

12 Accidents to be reported

  • The driver or person in charge of a motor vehicle that is involved in an accident that disrupts traffic movement shall report the accident to an airport official and supply his or her name and address and the registration number of the motor vehicle.

Part 3
Aircraft operation and gate position

13 Cleaning down, maintenance and repair of aircraft

  • (1) Except with the prior permission of an airport official, no person shall clean down, or carry out maintenance or repair work on an aircraft or a vehicle used in connection with aircraft operations except in a hangar or an area designated by the company for the purpose.

    (2) Any permission under subclause (1) may be amended or revoked at any time.

14 Gate standing times

  • (1) The chief executive may, from time to time, specify periods of time during which aircraft may remain stationed on the apron.

    (2) The person in charge of an aircraft shall move the aircraft when directed to do so by an airport official.

    (3) No person shall cause or permit an aircraft to remain stationed on the apron for a period of time in excess of the period applicable to that aircraft and prescribed under this bylaw.

15 Use of gate positions

  • No person shall cause or permit an aircraft to be stationed on the apron except at such place as the chief executive may direct.

16 Parking of aircraft

  • (1) No person shall park an aircraft except in such places and in such manner as directed by the chief executive and subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified by the chief executive from time to time.

    (2) No aircraft shall be left unattended at the airport unless it is properly secured against adverse weather conditions and unauthorised entry or other interference.

17 Use of apron

  • (1) No person operating, or in charge, of an aircraft shall use an apron unless—

    • (a) authorised to do so by the chief executive; and

    • (b) the use of the apron conforms with the parking pattern approved by the chief executive and all guidance lines, apron markings and signage.

    (2) Every person operating, or in charge of, an aircraft using an apron in contravention of subclause (1) shall, when required to do so by an airport official, remove the aircraft in accordance with the directions of that airport official.

18 Servicing vehicles

  • No person shall use any vehicle or equipment, or allow any vehicle or equipment to be used, in the servicing, or maintenance of aircraft if its condition is, or its contents are, likely to create a hazard by fire, flash or otherwise to aircraft, or refuelling facilities, or persons.

19 Spilt substances

  • (1) No person shall spill, drop, throw or deposit any oil, grease, fuel, refuse, broken glass, or any other thing, or substance, likely to—

    • (a) foul, obstruct, damage, endanger or create a hazard for, an aircraft; or

    • (b) injure or endanger any person; or

    • (c) create an environmental hazard or breach any environmental standard specified by the company or regulatory body.

    (2) Any person who spills, drops, throws, or deposits in any area or place any substance or thing to which subclause (1) applies shall—

    • (a) immediately advise an airport official; and

    • (b) remove the substance or thing and any hazard created by it; and

    • (c) make good the area or place—

    at that person's own expense and in accordance with any requirement of the chief executive and any applicable statute or regulation.

20 Liquid fuel

  • No person shall, except in an area designated by the company for the purpose,—

    • (a) fill any container or the fuel tank of a motor vehicle or aircraft with liquid fuel; or

    • (b) discharge liquid fuel from any container or the fuel tank of a motor vehicle or aircraft.

21 Storage of inflammables

  • No person shall, in any part of the airport, place, store, or accumulate any inflammable substance in a way or in a quantity that is likely to create a fire hazard.

22 Installations to comply with fire code

  • (1) All portable filling tanks, underground fuel storage tanks, installations, safety equipment, pumps and other associated facilities shall be installed and operated in such a manner as to comply with the requirements of the chief executive, the applicable provisions of any fire code of the Wellington City Council, the Dangerous Goods Act 1974, or any applicable regulations or bylaws.

    (2) No person shall install a fuel storage tank above or below the ground at the airport unless that person first obtains the written approval of the chief executive and any necessary permit or approval from other authorising agencies.

23 Offences and penalties

  • Every person who—

    • (a) acts or omits to act in breach of these bylaws; or

    • (b) fails to comply with or perform any duty imposed by these bylaws; or

    • (c) fails to comply with any order, direction, or requirement lawfully given under these bylaws—

    commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 and, where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $50 for every day during which the breach has continued.

24 Enforcement by other means not affected

  • Nothing in bylaw 23 limits or affects and provisions of the Land Transport Act 1998 that provide for the enforcement of these bylaws.

    Schedule bylaw 24: amended, on 10 May 2011, by section 100(3) of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).

The above bylaws were made by Wellington International Airport Limited by a resolution of its Board of Directors passed at a duly constituted meeting held on 25 July 1995.

D W Huse
Chief Executive

Marie Shroff,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 26 September 1995.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Wellington International Airport Bylaws Approval Order 1995. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the bylaws as at 10 May 2011, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)