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40 1936

AIR NAVIGATION AND TRANSPORT ACT, 1936

PART IX.

Restriction on Services for Internal Carriage by Air of Passengers and Goods.

Restriction on carriage by air of passengers and goods between places within Saorstát Eireann.

84. —(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on an internal air service unless—

(a) such person is the Company, or Aer Lingus, Teoranta, or a, subsidiary company, or

(b) such person is granted by the Minister under this section permission to carry on such service, and such service is carried on under and in accordance with such permission.

(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and in the case of a continuing offence a further fine not exceeding ten pounds for each day during which the offence is continued.

(3) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, grant to a person who is for the time being authorised to establish an international service permission in writing to carry on an internal air service, subject to a condition that such internal service shall be carried on only by means of aircraft operating such international service and such other conditions as the Minister thinks proper.

(4) In this section the expression “internal air service” means a service by air for the public carriage of passengers, and goods or any of them originating at and destined for places within Saorstát Eireann.