6.3 Civil Aviation Legislation in Nepal

The statute's stack (by name-and-effect): the Civil Aviation Act 2053 (1996) — the consolidating framework: the CAAN's establishment-and-powers (the licensing, the airworthiness, the airspace's control, the aerodromes, the investigation faces), the offences-and-penalties (the unlawful-acts faces of Unit 5.8), the registration-and-the "9N" regime (Unit 2.3.2); the supportinginstruments (the CAAN's regulations-and-directives: the flight-standards, the aerodrome, the air- transport-licensing rules — the AOCR-and-the manual family); the historical layer (the Aircraft Act2015 B.S. (1958/59) — the first statute of the aviation age: the Rana-era-to-modern bridge of the aviation history — and the Nepal Airlines Corporation's-and-the sector's organisational laws); and the recent reform (the legislation separating the regulator-and-the-operator functions — the 2080s' restructuring of the CAAN's dual role, the ICAO-urged reform's implementation: the safety- regulator's-and-the air-navigation-services'/airports' split — the current-era's transformation, stated at the hedge-level).