### Civil Aviation Ordinance 《民航條例》

3. Investigation of accidents
(1) The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations providing for the investigation of any accident arising out of or in the course of air navigation and occurring in or over Hong Kong, or occurring elsewhere to aircraft registered in Hong Kong. (Amended 36 of 1999 s. 3)
(2) Regulations under this section may contain provisions—
(a) requiring notice to be given of any such accident as aforesaid in such manner and by such persons as may be specified;
(b) applying, with or without modification, for the purpose of investigations held with respect to any such accidents any of the provisions of any law in force in Hong Kong relating to the investigation of deaths or accidents;
(c) prohibiting, pending investigation, access to or interference with aircraft to which an accident has occurred, and authorizing any person, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of an investigation, to have access to, examine, remove, take measures for the preservation of, or otherwise deal with, any such aircraft or any other aircraft;
(d) authorizing or requiring the cancellation, suspension, endorsement or surrender of any licence or other document granted in Hong Kong under regulations or orders made under this Ordinance or regulations specified in section 13(6), or the withdrawal or suspension of any validation conferred in Hong Kong of a licence granted by a competent authority elsewhere, where it appears on an investigation that the licence or other document ought to be cancelled, suspended, endorsed or surrendered, or the validation withdrawn or suspended, as the case may be, and requiring the production of any such licence or other document for the purpose of being so dealt with. (Amended 66 of 1997 s. 4)
(3) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation under this section commits a summary offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 6, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2020)

4. Dangerous flying
(1) Where an aircraft is flown in such a manner as to be the cause of unnecessary danger to any person or property on land or water, the pilot or the person in charge of the aircraft, and also the owner thereof unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the aircraft was so flown without his actual fault or privity, commits a summary offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine at level 6, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (Amended E.R. 2 of 2020)
(2) In this section owner (機主), in relation to an aircraft used in the commission of an offence under subsection (1), includes any person by whom the aircraft is hired at the time of the offence.

### Civil Aviation Ordinance 《民航條例》

12. Regulations and orders—supplementary provisions
(1) Regulations or orders under this Ordinance or an enactment specified in section 13(6) which relate to aircraft may provide for the detention of aircraft to secure compliance with the regulations or orders or with any provision of this Ordinance in connection with which the regulations or orders are made, and such regulations or orders may make such further provision as appears to the Chief Executive in Council to be necessary or expedient for securing such detention.
(2) Regulations or orders under this Ordinance, an enactment specified in section 13(6), or instructions given by the Chief Executive under any such regulations, orders or enactment, may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Chief Executive in Council, or to the Chief Executive, as may be appropriate, to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations, orders, enactment or instructions; and any such regulations, orders or enactment may authorize the Chief Executive to give instructions for the purposes of the regulations, orders or enactment in respect of such matters as may be therein specified.
(3) Any reference in this Ordinance to any regulations or orders made under this Ordinance, or to an enactment, includes where the context admits a reference to the provisions of any instructions given under the regulations or orders or enactment.
(Amended 66 of 1997 s. 9; 36 of 1999 s. 3)

### Civil Aviation Ordinance 《民航條例》

13. Savers
(1) Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to aircraft belonging to or exclusively employed for the time being in the service of the Central People’s Government, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
(2) The Chief Executive in Council may by order apply to any aircraft described in subsection (1), with or without modification, any provision of this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder or any enactment specified in subsection (6). (Amended 2 of 2012 s. 3)
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed as affecting any provision relating to marine navigation.
(4) Each of the enactments specified in subsection (6) (being enactments in force immediately before the commencement* of this section) shall notwithstanding section 14 continue in force, and such enactments shall be deemed to include such adaptations and modifications (if any) as are necessary or expedient to enable this subsection to have full effect.
(5) The Chief Executive in Council may by regulations amend or revoke any enactment specified in subsection (6). (Amended 36 of 1999 s. 3)
(6) The enactments referred to in subsection (4) are—
(a) the Air Transport (Licensing of Air Services) Regulations (App. I, p. G1)**; and
(b) the Hong Kong Civil Aviation (Investigation of Accidents) Regulations (App. I, p. L1)***. 

Editorial Note:
* Commencement date: 13 May 1994.
** Now Cap. 448 sub. leg. A.
*** Now Cap. 448 sub. leg. B.

14. Repeals
(1) The following provisions of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 (1949 c. 67 U.K.), in so far as they apply to Hong Kong, are repealed, namely, sections 10, 11, 13, 14, 40, 41, 51, 53, 57, 58, 59 and 61.
(2) (Repealed 66 of 1997 s. 10)(3) Section 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) shall apply to each of the repeals effected by subsection (1) as it applies in relation to a repeal described in that section.