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Obligation to notify reportable safety matters

Air Navigation Act 1966

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—(1) If a responsible person has knowledge of any reportable safety matter, the person must, where required to do so under the applicable aviation safety subsidiary legislation, notify the Authority of the reportable safety matter in the manner prescribed in the aviation safety subsidiary legislation, including those of the particulars of the matter prescribed by that subsidiary legislation that are known.(2) A responsible person shall be guilty of an offence if the person fails to comply with subsection (1).(3) A responsible person is not excused from giving any information required by subsection (1) on the ground that the disclosure of the information might tend to incriminate the person or expose the person to a penalty.(4) Where a responsible person claims, before giving any information that the person is required by subsection (1) to give, that the disclosure of the information might tend to incriminate the person —(a)that information;(b)the giving of the information; and(c)any information, document or thing obtained as a direct or indirect consequence of the giving of the information,is not admissible in evidence against the person in any criminal proceedings other than proceedings for an offence under section 86.(5) In this section —“reportable safety matter” means safety matter that is prescribed by any aviation safety subsidiary legislation to be a reportable safety matter;“responsible person”, in relation to a reportable safety matter, means —(a)a person who operates, maintains, or services, or does any other act in respect of, any aircraft, aeronautical product or aviation‑related service; or(b)any other person,who is prescribed by the applicable aviation safety subsidiary legislation for the purposes of this definition in relation to the reportable safety matter concerned;“safety matter” means —(a)the occurrence of any incident involving any Singapore registered aircraft or any aircraft operated by a Singapore operator which endangers or which, if not corrected, would endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person, including and not limited to defects or malfunctioning of the aircraft or any part of the aircraft;(b)the occurrence of any incident involving any facility on the ground used or intended to be used for purposes of or in connection with the operation of an aircraft, which endangers or which, if not corrected, would endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person, including and not limited to defects or malfunctioning of the facility or any part of the facility;(c)any information that relates to compliance, or failure to comply, with any provision of this Act or of any applicable aviation safety subsidiary legislation, or with the law of any Contracting State in which the aircraft operates;(d)any other occurrence that affected, is affecting, or might affect safety of transport by air that may be prescribed by any aviation safety subsidiary legislation to be a safety matter.[4O

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