Section 41, Civil Aviation Act, 2017 for an effective aviation safety and security

(1) The Director-General shall encourage internationaland regional cooperation in the regulation and administration of aviation . (2) The Director-General may enter into agreements for co- safety operative endeavours in aviation safety with other regional contracting States to the Convention on International Civil Aviation and shall, in co- ordination with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to negotiate, agree to, and manage any such regional international agreements. (3) The Director-General may, where appropriate to civil aviation safety and the public interest, further delegate certain aviation safety tasks under the international agreement to citizens of Sierra Leone, citizens of other contracting States or regional bodies with which Sierra Leone has entered into an international or regional agreement. (4) The Director-General may, subject to the approval of the Board, cause to be implemented from time to time surcharges on ticket sales by international passengers for the purposes of meeting obligations arising from international and regional cooperative safety arrangements. Authority enter into cooperative aviation safety agreement. Bilateral exchange of safety oversight responsibilities