An Act to provide for regulation and control of the design, manufacture, maintenance, possession, use, operation, sale, export and import of aircraft and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
The Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024 has 43 sections in 8 chapters. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.
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Chapter I: PRELIMINARY
Chapter II: DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF CIVIL AVIATION
- Section 3 – Directorate General of Civil Aviation
- Section 4 – Power of Director General of Civil Aviation to issue directions
Chapter III: BUREAU OF CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY
- Section 5 – Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
- Section 6 – Power of Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security to issue directions
Chapter IV: AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATION BUREAU
- Section 7 – Aircraft Accidents Investigation Bureau
Chapter V: POWERS OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
- Section 8 – Superintendence of Central Government
- Section 9 – Power of Central Government to review orders passed under section 4 or section 6
- Section 10 – Power of Central Government to make rules
- Section 11 – Power of Central Government to make rules to Implement Convention
- Section 12 – Power of Central Government to make rules for investigation of accidents
- Section 13 – Power of Central Government to make rules for protecting public health
- Section 14 – Emergency powers of Central Government for protecting public health
- Section 15 – Power of Central Government to make orders in emergency
- Section 16 – Power of Central Government to make rules for securing safe custody and re-delivery of unclaimed property
- Section 17 – Power to detain aircraft
- Section 18 – Power of Central Government to prohibit or regulate construction of buildings, planting of trees, and the like
- Section 19 – Power of Central Government to restrict, suspend or cancel licence, certificate or approval
- Section 20 – Power of Central Government to exempt certain aircraft
- Section 21 – Power of Central Government to delegate
Chapter VI: PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE
- Section 22 – Manner of determination and payment of compensation for loss or damage
- Section 23 – Appeal from award in respect of compensation
- Section 24 – Arbitrator to have certain powers of civil courts
Chapter VII: OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- Section 25 – Penalty for contravention of rule made under this Act
- Section 26 – Penalty for flying so as to cause danger
- Section 27 – Penalty for failure to comply with directions issued under section 4 or section 6
- Section 28 – Penalty for failure to comply with directions issued under section 18
- Section 29 – Penalty for abetment of offences and attempted offences
- Section 30 – Composition of offences
- Section 31 – Cognizance of offences
- Section 32 – Adjudication of penalties
- Section 33 – Appeal
Chapter VIII: MISCELLANEOUS
- Section 34 – Rules to be made after publication
- Section 35 – Laying of rules before Parliament
- Section 36 – Power of Court to order forfeiture
- Section 37 – Wreck and salvage
- Section 38 – Use of patented invention on aircraft not registered in India
- Section 39 – Bar of certain suits
- Section 40 – Protection of action taken in good faith
- Section 41 – Savings of application of Act
- Section 42 – Power to remove difficulty
- Section 43 – Repeal and savings