Section 8
Section 3 of the principal Act is amended—
of CIVIL Aviation (Amendment) Act 2017
(a)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
by inserting after paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“(aa) regulating security of the civil aviation including the establishment of national security programme or any other security programme;”;
(ii)
by substituting for paragraph (p) the following paragraph:
“(p) exempting any aircraft, flight or person or classes of aircrafts, flights or persons from any provision of any subsidiary legislation made under this Act, the person by whom the exemption may be made and the terms and conditions for the exemption;”;
(iii)
by substituting for paragraph (q) the following paragraph:
“(q) the investigation of aircraft accident, incident or serious incident either occurring in Malaysia or occurring to Malaysian aircraft;”;
(iv)
by substituting for the words “; and” at the end of paragraph (s) a semicolon;
(v)
by substituting for the full stop at the end of paragraph (t) the words “; and”; and
(vi)
by inserting after paragraph (t) the following paragraph:
“(u) prescribing all other matters as are expedient or necessary to be prescribed for giving effect to this Act and the Civil Aviation
Authority of Malaysia Act 2017.”;
(b)
by substituting for subsection (2a) the following subsection:
“(2a) Any regulations made under this section may prescribe any act in contravention of the regulations to be an offence and may prescribe penalties of a fine not exceeding one million ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or both for such offence.”; and
(c)
by deleting subsection (4).