Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 53

Application and interpretation of Part VI

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 36 of 1999 s. 3 PART VI

FATIGUE OF CREW

(1) Articles 54 and 55 of this Order apply in relation to any aircraft
registered in Hong Kong which is either:-

   (a)  engaged on a flight for the purpose of public transport, or

   (b)  operated by an air transport undertaking: Provided that the said
        Articles shall not apply in relation to a flight made only for the
        purpose of instruction in flying given by or on behalf of a flying
        club or flying school, or a person who is not an air transport
        undertaking.

(2) In this Part of this Order, the following expressions shall, except where
the context otherwise requires, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned
to them, that is to say-

        (a)	"flight time", in relation to any person, means all time spent 
by that person in an aircraft whether or not registered in Hong Kong

(other than an aircraft of which the maximum total weight authorised does not
exceed 1600 kg and which is not flying for the purpose of public transport or
aerial work) while it is in flight and he is carried therein as a member of
the crew thereof;

   (b)  "day" means a continuous period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
        Co-ordinated Universal Time. (36 of 1999 s. 3)

(3) For the purposes of this Part of the Order, a helicopter shall be deemed
to be in flight from the moment the helicopter first moves under its own power
for the purpose of taking off until the rotors are next stopped.

"flight time" "day"