General Regulatory Powers

the accreditation or licensing of

the design, manufacture, distribution, maintenance, approval, installation, inspection, registration, licensing, identification and certification of aeronautical products;

the design, installation, inspection, maintenance, approval and certification of equipment and facilities used to provide services relating to aeronautics;

the approval of flight training equipment;

activities at aerodromes and the location, inspection, certification, registration, licensing and operation of aerodromes;

noise emanating from aerodromes and aircraft;

the certification of air carriers;

the conditions under which aircraft may be used or operated or under which any act may be performed in or from aircraft;

the conditions under which persons or personal belongings, baggage, goods or cargo of any kind may be transported by aircraft;

the areas within which aircraft coming from outside Canada are to land and the conditions to which such aircraft are subject;

the classification and use of airspace and the control and use of aerial routes;

the prohibition of the development or expansion of aerodromes or any change to the operation of aerodromes;

the consultations that must be carried out by the proponent of an aerodrome before its development or by the operator of an aerodrome before its expansion or any change to its operation;

the prohibition of the use of airspace or aerodromes;

the prohibition of the doing of any other act or thing in respect of which regulations under this Part may be made;

the enforcement of such laws as may be deemed necessary for the safe and proper operation of aircraft;

the use and operation of any objects that in the opinion of the Minister are likely to be hazardous to aviation safety;

the preservation, protection and removal of aircraft involved in accidents, personal belongings, baggage, goods, cargo of any kind thereon, and of any records pertaining to the aircraft or its flight, the preservation, protection, removal and testing of any part of such aircraft and the protection of sites of aircraft accidents;

the investigation of any accident involving an aircraft, any alleged contravention under this Part or any incident involving an aircraft that, in the opinion of the Minister, endangered the safety of persons;

the taking of statements by investigators for the purpose of an investigation referred to in paragraph (q);

the keeping and preservation of records and documents relating to aerodromes, to activities, with respect to aeronautics, of persons who hold Canadian aviation documents and to aeronautical products and equipment and facilities used to provide services relating to aeronautics;

the handling, marking, storage and delivery of fuel and any lubricants or chemicals used during or in connection with the operation of aircraft;

the provision of facilities, services and equipment relating to aeronautics;

the provision of aviation weather services by persons other than Her Majesty in right of Canada; and

the application of the Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago, 7 December 1944, as amended from time to time.

requiring a person or class of persons having aviation safety responsibilities to develop and document safety management systems or other systems in relation to aviation safety and to keep them up to date;

requiring a person or class of persons having aviation safety responsibilities to develop and document processes, procedures, programs or plans in relation to aviation safety and to keep them up to date;

requiring a person or class of persons having aviation safety responsibilities to develop documents, such as manuals, in relation to aviation safety and to keep them up to date;

respecting the content and requirements of a system, process, procedure, program, plan or document referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c); and

requiring a person or class of persons having aviation safety responsibilities to comply with the provisions or requirements of a system, process, procedure, program, plan or document referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c).

limiting the hours of work of crew members of any aircraft operated by air carriers and of crew members of any aircraft used for carrying passengers;

requiring owners and operators of aircraft to subscribe for and carry liability insurance and specifying the minimum amount of that insurance if the owners and operators are not required by regulations made by the Canadian Transportation Agency to subscribe for and carry liability insurance; and

requiring persons providing aeronautical radio navigation services, within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Civil Air Navigation Services Commercialization Act, to subscribe for and carry liability insurance and specifying the minimum amount of that insurance.

a document developed for the purpose of documenting a system, process, procedure, program or plan under a regulatory requirement;

a document developed under a regulatory requirement;

a document the provisions or requirements of which a person is to comply with under a regulatory requirement; and

a notice referred to in section 5.12 or 5.13.

aeronautical products or equipment or facilities used to provide services relating to aeronautics,

persons who operate or are engaged in the design, installation, inspection, maintenance, approval and certification of aeronautical products, equipment or facilities, or

the provision of information services in relation to the operation of aircraft or conditions of flight