Section 40, Civil Aviation Act, 2017 for an effective aviation safety and security

(1) The Director-General shall, as may be deemednecessary in the opinion of the Director-General and in the interests of aviation safety, air traffic issue rules and regulations relating to - (a) flight of aircraft; (b) navigation, protection, and identification of aircraft; (c) protection of persons and property on the ground; (d) the efficient utilisation of the navigable airspace, including rules - (i) regulating safe altitude of flight; (ii) for the prevention of collision between aircrafts, between aircraft and land or water vehicles and objects and between aircraft and airborne objects; and (e) the interception, safeguarding, direction (including to land) and control of aircraft flyingunlawfully above the territory of Sierra Leone. (2) The Director-General shall provide, as required in the interest of aviation safety, the necessary facilities and personnel for the regulation and protection of air traffic. (3) The authority granted to the Director-General under this section shall be exercised only in that airspace for which air traffic control responsibility has not been assigned to a foreign country by international agreement or other arrangement. (4) In exercising the authority granted, and discharging the duties imposed by this Act, the Director-General shall give full consideration to the requirements of national defence, of commercial and general aviation and to the public right of transit through the navigable airspace. 40 41 Internal audit. Use of airpace. Regulation of air taffic. No. 7 The Civil Aviation Act 2019No. 7 The Civil Aviation Act 201942 43