South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears—
"aircraft" includes any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from
the reactions of the air;
"landing" includes alighting on water;
"member of the crew", in relation to an aircraft, means a person having duties
or functions on board the aircraft;
"the Air Navigation Regulations" means the regulations known as the Air
Navigation Regulations as in force for the time being under the Air
Navigation Act 1920 of the Commonwealth as in force from time to time and
includes any of those regulations as in force by virtue of a law of the State;
"the Commonwealth Act" means the Crimes (Aircraft) Act 1963 of the
Commonwealth as in force from time to time.
(2) For the purposes
of this Act—
(a) a
flight of an aircraft shall be taken to commence—
(i)
at the time of the closing of the last external door of
the aircraft to be closed before the aircraft first moves for the purpose of
taking off from any place; or
(ii)
if subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is not
applicable—at the time at which the aircraft first moves for the purpose
of taking off from any place; and
(b) a
flight of an aircraft shall be taken to end—
(i)
at the time of the opening of the first external door of
the aircraft to be opened after the aircraft comes to rest after its next
landing after the commencement of the flight; or
(ii)
if subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is not
applicable—at the time at which the aircraft comes to rest after its
next landing after the commencement of the flight,
or, if the aircraft is destroyed or the flight is abandoned, before either
subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph becomes
applicable, at the time at which the aircraft is destroyed or the flight is
abandoned, as the case may be.
(4) A flight of an
aircraft shall, for the purposes of this Act, be taken to be a flight within
the State where the flight commences in the State and ends, or is, at the
commencement of the flight, intended to end, in the State, whether or not the
aircraft may or will, in the course of the flight, go outside the State.