For the purposes of these Rules, unless the context indicates otherwise—

means Airports Company South Africa SOC Limited;

means a company airport as defined in section 1 of the Airports Company Act;

means TMA airspace associated with an ACSA airport, but in which may also be non-ACSA airports;

means an Aeronautical Information Circular;

means an Aeronautical Information Publication;

means any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth, and includes any non-type certificated aircraft;

means an aerodrome as defined in section 1 of the Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009), and includes an ACSA airport;

means the Airports Company Act, 1993 (Act No. 44 of 1993), as amended;

means an aerodrome control tower, an approach control office or an area control centre or a combination thereof;

includes without limitation—

means an amount levied by the Company on the operator of an aircraft in connection with the provision of air traffic services to that operator;

means an air traffic service unit established for the purpose of receiving reports concerning air traffic services and flight plans submitted before the departure of an aircraft from an aerodrome;

means an air traffic control unit, flight information centre or air traffic service reporting office;

means a service provided to notify the appropriate organizations regarding aircraft in need of search and rescue aid and to assist such organizations as appropriate;

means airspace that excludes—

means Air Traffic Management;

means business sustaining cost;

means the Civil Aviation Regulations, 1997, as amended;

means Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company SOC Limited;

means a person designated by the Company for the purposes

of these Rules;

means flight distance;

means OR Tambo International Airport;

means Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport;

means Richards Bay Airport;

means fixed cost;

means airspace in which flight information services are provided exclusively;

means from the moment an aircraft commences its take-off until the moment it completes its next landing;

means an air traffic service unit established to provide flight information services and alerting services;

means a service provided for the purpose of giving advice and information useful for the safe and efficient conduct of flights;

means specified information provided to air traffic service units relative to an intended movement of an aircraft;

means the point of entry into or exit from the South African flight information region;

means the maximum permissible mass shown in the aircraft flight manual or other document associated with the certificate of airworthiness at which an aircraft may commence its take-off under standard atmospheric conditions at sea level;

means Maximum Certificated Mass;

means a flight, or a portion of a flight, through any aerodrome airspace, TMA airspace or area (en route) airspace;

means any aircraft that does not qualify for the issue of a certificate of airworthiness in terms of Part 21 of the Civil Aviation Regulations and includes any type certificated aircraft that has been scrapped, of which the original identification plate has been removed and returned to the applicable aviation authority and is rebuild as a full-scale replica;

means a Notice to Airmen;

means a person or legal entity, holding a valid license and operating certificate or equivalent thereof authorizing such person or entity to conduct scheduled, nonscheduled or general air services, and includes—

in relation to an aircraft, means the person in whose name such aircraft is registered, and includes any person who is or has been acting as agent in South Africa for a foreign owner, or any person by whom the aircraft is hired at the time;

means the Regulating Committee established by section 11 of the Airports Company Act;

means the geographical area consisting of the flight information regions of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Johannesburg Oceanic;

means the South African Maritime and Aeronautical Search and Rescue Act, 2002 (Act No. 44 of 2002);

are the terms and conditions of payment set out on the invoice;

means aircraft used in military, customs and police services;

means a control area normally established at the confluence of air traffic service routes in the vicinity of one or more ACSA airports as published in an AIP, AIC or NOTAM and designated as a terminal control area;

means terminal control area; and

means variable cost.