Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1943

PART IV.

Licences in Respect of Aerodromes and Passenger Aircraft.

Definitions for the purposes of Part IV.

24.—In this Part of this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;

the expression “the Act of 1927” means the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1927 (No. 15 of 1927);

the expression “the Act of 1936” means the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1936 (No. 40 of 1936);

the word “aircraft” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 1936; the expression “approved aerodrome” means an aerodrome (within the meaning of the Act of 1936) which complies with both the following conditions, that is to say:—

(a) it either is licensed by the Minister in pursuance of an order made under Part II of the Act of 1936 or is controlled and operated by the Minister or by the Minister for Defence, and

(b) it is used for the arrival and departure of aircraft operated as part of an authorised air transport service;

the expression “authorised air transport service” means an air service for the transport of passengers, mails, and goods or any of them by air which is either—

(a) an internal air service within the meaning of Part IX of the Act of 1936 the carrying on of which is authorised by or under the said Part IX, or

(b) an international airway or regular international air navigation line established, or created and operated, with the prior authorisation of the Minister under the Air Navigation (International Lines) Order, 1935 ( S.R. & O., No. 560 of 1935 ), or any order for the time being in force amending or replacing that order;

the expression “air transport concern” means a person entitled to operate an authorised air transport service;

the expression “on-licence” means a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor for consumption either on or off the premises;

the expression “aerodrome premises” means all the buildings for the time being erected in an approved aerodrome irrespective of the purpose for which such premises are used;

the expression “licensed aerodrome premises” means premises in an approved aerodrome in respect of which a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquor granted or renewed by virtue of this Part of this Act is for the time being subsisting, whether such premises are the whole or a part only of the aerodrome premises, in such aerodrome.