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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 232.08
STATISTICAL RETURNS IN RESPECT OF 
CARRIAGE OF PASSENGERS, FREIGHT AND 
MAIL REGULATIONS
9th March, 2001
LEGAL NOTICE 51 of 2001.
Title.
respect of Carriage of Passengers, Freight and Mail Regulations.
Interpretation.
"aerodrome" means any area of land or water designed,
equipped, set apart or commonly used for affording facilities for
the landing and departure of aircraft and includes any area or space,
whether on the ground, on the roof of a building or elsewhere,
which is designed, equipped or set apart for affording facilities for
the landing and departure of aircraft capable of descending or
climbing vertically, but shall not include any area the use of which
for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft has
been abandoned and has not been resumed;
"carrier" means an air transport undertaking with a valid
operating licence. Where carriers have joint venture or other
contractual arrangements requiring two or more of them to assume
separate responsibility for the offer and sale of air transport
products on a flight or combination of flights, the carrier actually
having the commercial rights to operate the flight shall be reported;
"commercial air services" means all flights operated for hire or
reward and which include scheduled and non-scheduled flights,
domestic helicopter flights, air taxi flights and all cargo flights;
"Director" means the Director of Civil Aviation and, to the
extent of the authority given, any person authorised in that behalf
by the Director;
"flights" means the number of flights performed between each
pair of airports on a flight stage;
"flight stage" shall be construed to mean the operation of an
aircraft from take-off to its next landing. A technical stop should
not result in any flight stage being classified differently than would
have been the case had the technical stop not been made. The
classification of traffic (passengers, freight, mail) irrespective of its
nature, shall be identical to the classification of the flight stage
flown by the aircraft;
"freight on board" means any property carried on an aircraft
other than stores and baggage and includes express and diplomatic
bags but not passenger baggage or mail;
"ICAO" means the International Civil Aviation Organization;
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"infant" means a person whose age is between two and twelve
years;
"mail on board" means dispatches of correspondence and other
objects carried on an aircraft which have been dispatched by and
intended for delivery to postal administrations;
"non-scheduled flights" mean those flights provided for hire or
reward other than those reported under scheduled flights, and
include air taxi flights;
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"operator of an aerodrome" is the person who is licensed under
the Air Navigation Order to operate an aerodrome for public use;
"passengers on board" mean all passengers whose air journey
begins or terminates at the reporting airport, including connecting
passengers. Direct transit passengers are also to be counted. Direct
transit passengers are passengers who continue their journey on a
flight having the same flight number as the flight on which they
arrived;
"passenger seats available" shall be construed to mean the total
number of passenger seats available for sale between each pair of
airports on a flight stage, excluding seats not actually available for
the carriage of passengers because of the weight of fuel or other
load. Where information is not available on the exact aircraft
configuration, estimated data should be provided;
"scheduled flights" mean those flights performed by aircraft for
hire or reward for the transport of passenger, freight and mail, in
such a manner that on each flight seats are available for individual
purchase by any person, whether directly from the carrier or from
its authorised agents, operated between two or more airports, either
according to a published timetable or so regular or frequent that
they constitute a recognisably systematic series.
Data collection 
characteristics.
3. ( a ) A carrier shall forward to the operator of an aerodrome
located in Malta and licensed for public use, air
transport data in connection with commercial air
services carried out at that aerodrome specifying the
carriage of passengers, passenger seats available,
freight and mail, for every flight stage to and from that
aerodrome.
( b ) The air transport data shall be submitted to the
operator of the aerodrome in the reporting form shown
in the Schedule or in an electronic format as agreed
with the operator of the aerodrome.
( c ) The carrier shall submit the air transport data specified
in this regulation within twelve hours from arrival at or
departure from the aerodrome.
Submission of 
data.
4. The aerodrome operator shall submit the air transport data
in a format and on a periodic basis to the Director as the latter may
require.
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Requirements 
imposed by 
principal 
statistician.
Cap. 422.
5. Any person collecting, or in any other manner dealing
with, air transport data as aforesaid, shall abide by any requirement
which may be imposed by the Director General of the National
Statistics Office in terms of the Malta Statistics Authority Act.
Penalties.
aerodrome the air transport data within the time limit as provided in
these regulations, or furnishes him with incorrect or incomplete air
transport data, shall be liable to a fine ( multa ) not exceeding fifty
liri, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine not
exceeding two liri for each day during which the offence continues.
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SCHEDULE
(Regulation 3( b ))
FLIGHT DECLARATION
