Pursuant to sections 87Q(4) and 87X(4) of the Civil Aviation Act 1990, section 41(1) of the State Sector Act 1988, and a delegation from the Secretary for Transport dated 12 February 2020, I, Thomas Hamilton Forster, Manager – Economic Regulation in the Ministry of Transport, hereby give notice that I have:

• exercised the power conferred by section 87Q of the Civil Aviation Act 1990 to vary the terms of the Scheduled International Air Service Licences issued to Hainan Airlines Company Limited and Virgin Australia International Airlines Pty Ltd respectively to incorporate a new provision that allows for the imposition of a temporary cap on passenger numbers carried by those airlines; and
• exercised the power conferred by section 87X of the Civil Aviation Act 1990 to vary the terms of the Open Aviation Market Licence issued to Polynesian Limited (trading as Samoa Airways) to incorporate a new provision that allows for the imposition of a temporary cap on passenger numbers carried by that airline.

The effective date of these variations is 12 August 2020.

Signed at Wellington this 13th day of August 2020.

TOM FORSTER, Manager – Economic Regulation, Ministry Of Transport.