NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

11 APRIL

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Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

Civil Aviation Act 1990

Airworthiness Directive

Pursuant to section 72I (3) (a) of the Civil Aviation Act 1990, and to a delegation from the Director of Civil Aviation, I, Geoffrey Neil Connor, Safety Analyst–Continuing Airworthiness, hereby issue the following airworthiness directive in respect of an aircraft:

DCA/BELL222/13

This airworthiness directive shall come into force on 11 April 2002.

Airworthiness directives may be viewed on the CAA web site (www.caa.govt.nz) or at Aviation House, 1 Market Grove, Lower Hutt, Wellington.

Dated this 4th day of April 2002.

GEOFFREY N. CONNOR, Safety Analyst–Continuing Airworthiness.

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Civil Aviation Rules

Pursuant to section 34 (1) (a) of the Civil Aviation Act 1990, the Minister of Transport gives notice of his intention to make ordinary rules regarding passenger, crew member, and checked baggage weights in the following CAR Parts:

Part 121, 125, 135—Air Operations
Part 1—Definitions and Abbreviations

The submission close-off time for the proposed rules is 23 May 2002.

Copies of the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM 02-05) are available for viewing at Aviation House, 1 Market Grove, Lower Hutt, and on application to the Docket Clerk, P.O. Box 31-441, Lower Hutt 6315.

NPRM 02-05 is also available on the CAA web site: www.caa.govt.nz

For further information write to the Docket Clerk at the above address, or telephone (04) 560 9412, or email: docket@caa.govt.nz

Initial copies have been sent to interested parties.

Dated at Lower Hutt this 8th day of April 2002.

HILARY KEENAN, Docket Clerk.

(Docket No.: 2/CAR/5)

Promoting a safe civil aviation system.

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Electoral Commission

Broadcasting Act 1989

Allocations of Broadcasting Time and Funds for the 2002 General Election

Notices are sought from political parties which consider themselves qualified for an allocation of broadcasting time or for an allocation of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of broadcasting election programmes at the 2002 General Election.

Introduction

The Broadcasting Act 1989 (“the Act”) describes the responsibilities of the Electoral Commission (“the commission”) to allocate time and money to eligible political parties to enable them to broadcast election programmes during an election period.

The “election period” at an election is defined in section 69 of the Act as the period beginning with writ day and ending with the close of the day preceding polling day.

The commission allocates to eligible political parties the time that may be made available by broadcasters free or at discounted rates, in response to an invitation issued by the commission.

The money allocated to such parties is appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of enabling those parties to meet all or part of the costs of broadcasting election programmes during the election period.

Eligibility Criteria

Section 75 of the Act sets out the criteria with which the commission is to comply when allocating time or money to a political party at a general election.

Subsection (1)(a) of that section provides that the commission shall not allocate any time to a political party under section 73 of the Act or make under section 74A of the Act an allocation of money to any political party unless:

(i) that party was registered on the Register of Political Parties at least 3 months before the dissolution of Parliament for that general election; or

(ii) persons belonging to that party or group of related political parties were, by section 70D of this Act, deemed, at least 3 months before the dissolution of Parliament for that general election, to be constituency candidates at that general election for at least 5 seats in the House of Representatives.

The date of the dissolution of Parliament for the general election will not be known until closer to the date of the general election.

Section 70D of the Act is as follows:

Where a political party states, pursuant to section 70C (g) of this Act, that a person has declared his or her intention of becoming a constituency candidate at an election, that person shall, until noon on nomination day for that election, be deemed, for the purposes of subsections (1) (a)(ii) and (1) (b)(ii) of section 75 of this Act, to be a candidate at that election, whether that person is nominated or not.

Parties to Give Notice of Eligibility

Section 70A (1) of the Act requires the commission to specify, by notice in the New Zealand Gazette, a date by which any political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 of the Act or of money under section 74A of the Act in respect of the election period that will apply for the 2002 general election, must notify the commission in writing that it considers itself to be so qualified.

The commission specifies Wednesday, 1 May 2002 as that date.

Section 76 (3) of the Act provides, among other things, that the failure of any political party to give such notice or to comply with any other request of the commission shall not prevent the commission from making any allocation of time.