Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 65

Licensing of air traffic controllers, student air traffic controllers and aerodrome flight information service officers

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

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

(1) The Chief Executive may grant a licence subject to such conditions as he
thinks fit to any person to act as an air traffic controller, as a student air
traffic controller or as an aerodrome flight  information service officer upon
his being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to hold the licence and
is qualified by reason of his knowledge, experience, competence, skill,
physical and mental fitness so to act, and for that purpose the applicant
shall furnish such evidence and undergo such examinations and tests (including
in particular medical examinations) as the Chief Executive may require of him:
Provided that the Chief Executive shall not grant-

   (a)  a student air traffic controller's licence or an aerodrome 
        flight information service officer's licence to a person under the age
        of 18 years; or

   (b)  an air traffic controller's licence which includes an Aerodrome
        Control Rating, an Approach Control Rating or an Area Control Rating,
        to a  person under the age of 20 years; or

   (c)  an air traffic controller's licence which includes any other rating,
        to a person under the age of 21 years.

(2) Every licence to act as an air traffic controller shall include

   (a)  ratings of one or more of the classes set forth in Schedule 10 to this
        Order specifying the type of air traffic control service which the
        holder of the licence is competent to provide, (b) a list of the
        places at which, and (c) the type of radar equipment, if any, with the
        aid of which he may provide the service. If throughout any period of
        90 days the holder of the licence has not at any time provided at a
        particular place the type of air  traffic control service specified in
        the rating, the rating shall, without prejudice to the
        Chief Executive's powers under Article 62 of this Order, cease to be
        valid for that place at the end of that period, and upon a rating
        ceasing to be valid for a place the holder of the licence shall
        forthwith inform the Chief Executive to that effect and shall forward
        the licence to the Chief Executive to enable it to be endorsed
        accordingly.

(3) Every licence to act as a student air traffic controller shall be valid
only for the purpose of authorizing the holder to provide air 
traffic control service under the supervision of another person who is present
at the time and is the holder of a valid air traffic controller's licence
which includes a rating specifying the type of air traffic control  service
which is being provided by the student air traffic controller and valid at the
place in question.

(4) Every licence to act as an aerodrome flight information service officer
shall be valid only for the purpose of authorizing the holder to provide an
aerodrome flight information service at an aerodrome specified in the licence.
If throughout any period of 180 days, the holder of the licence has not at any
time provided such a service at a particular aerodrome, the licence shall
cease to be valid for that aerodrome at the end of that period.

(5) A licence to act as an air traffic controller, as a student air traffic
controller or as an aerodrome flight information service officer shall not be
valid unless the holder of the licence has signed his name thereon in ink with
his ordinary signature.

(6) Subject to the provisions of Article 62 of this Order, a licence to act as
an air traffic controller, as a student air traffic controller or as an
aerodrome flight information service officer shall remain in force for the
period indicated in the licence and may be renewed by the Chief Executive from
time to time, upon his being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person and
is qualified as aforesaid. If no period is indicated in the licence, it shall
remain in force, subject as aforesaid, for the lifetime of the holder.

(7) Every applicant for and holder of an air traffic controller's licence or a
student air traffic controller's licence shall upon such occasions as the
Chief Executive may require-

   (a)  submit himself to medical examination by a person approved by the
        Chief Executive either generally or in a particular case who shall
        make a report to the Chief Executive in such form as the
        Chief Executive may require; and

   (b)  submit himself to such examinations and tests and furnish such
        evidence as to his knowledge, experience, competence and skill, as the
        Chief Executive may require, and such examinations and tests may be
        conducted by the Chief Executive or by a person approved by the Chief 
        Executive.

(8) Every applicant for and holder of an aerodrome flight  information service
officer's licence shall, upon such occasions as the Chief Executive may
require, subject himself to such examinations and tests and furnish such
evidence as to his knowledge, experience, competence and skill as the
Chief Executive may require, and such examinations and tests may be conducted
by the Chief Executive or by a  person approved by the Chief Executive.

(9) On the basis of the medical examination referred to in paragraph (7) of
this Article, the Chief Executive or any person approved by him as competent
to do so may issue a medical certificate subject to such conditions as he
thinks fit to the effect that the holder of the licence has been assessed as
fit to perform the functions to which the licence relates. The certificate
shall, without prejudice to Article 68 of this Order, be valid for such period
as is therein specified, and shall be deemed to form part of the licence.

(10) The holder of an air traffic controller's licence or student air traffic
controller's licence shall not provide any type of air traffic 
control service at any such aerodrome or place as is referred to in Article
66(1) of this Order unless his licence includes a medical certificate issued
and in force under paragraph (9) of this Article.

(36 of 1999 s. 3)