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Air Services Licensing Act, 1990 (Act No. 115 of 1990)

20. Failure of licensee

 

(1) The council may, if it on reasonable grounds suspects that a licensee has failed to comply with a provision of this Act—
(a) direct such licensee to comply with such provision within the period determined by the council;
(b) suspend the licence concerned, on the conditions determined by the council, for a period not exceeding two years; or
(c) cancel the licence concerned.

 

(2) No licence shall be suspended or cancelled in terms of subsection (1)(b) or (c) unless—
(a) the council has notified the licensee in writing of its suspicions, stating the grounds for such suspicions; and
(b) the council has given the licensee the opportunity to address representations to the council, within the period determined by the council, regarding those suspicions.

 

(3)

(a) The council may, in order to conduct a proper investigation into a failure referred to in subsection (1), hold a meeting as contemplated in section 16(3).
(b) Section 16(3) shall apply mutatis mutandis to such meeting: Provided that the parties who shall attend such meeting shall be the licensee and the Commissioner for Civil Aviation and that the parties who may attend such meeting shall be any person who addressed submissions to the council in which that person alleged that the licensee failed to comply with the provisions of this Act.

[Section 20(3)(b) substituted by section 5(d) of Act No. 21 of 2008]

 

[Section 20 substituted by section 3 of Act No. 15 of 1992]