Statute Law Compilation and Revision (Correction of Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2024) Notice, 2025
A Law Reviser's correction cuts the airport revenue share in the Civil Aviation Amendment Act from 77.5% to 67.5%, deletes a subsection, and requires accident investigation reports to be published within thirty days.
The Law Reviser has issued a correction notice against the Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2024 (No. 8 of 2024), which was published on 31 December 2024. The explanatory note describes the object as correcting textual errors in that Act.
Two of the four corrections are substantive rather than typographical. In section 29, the words "Seventy-seven point five per centum" in section 87(1) — the sharing of certain revenues between the Airports Company and the Authority — are replaced with "Sixty-seven point five per centum". That is a ten percentage point shift in how airport revenue is divided. Also in section 29, subsection (2) of section 87 is deleted in its entirety.
In section 15, a proviso is inserted into section 57A (non-disclosure of records and recordings): the final report of an investigation must first be submitted to the Minister, who shall publish the report within thirty days. That sets a publication duty and a deadline on accident and incident investigation reports which the Act as published did not carry.
The fourth correction is genuinely textual: in section 27, "an organisations" in section 80B(2)(b) becomes "organisations".
Worth knowing how this was done. These changes were made by a Law Reviser's correction notice under section 11C of the Statute Law Compilation and Revision Act, not by an amending Act passed through Parliament. Anyone working from the version of the Act published on 31 December 2024 is working from superseded text.
What changed
- The revenue share in section 87(1) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2024 changes from 77.5% to 67.5%.
- Section 87(2) of that Act is deleted in its entirety.
- A proviso is inserted into section 57A requiring the final investigation report to be submitted to the Minister, who must publish it within thirty days.
- A typographical error in section 80B(2)(b) is corrected from "an organisations" to "organisations".
- The changes are made by a Law Reviser's correction notice under section 11C of the Statute Law Compilation and Revision Act, not by an amending Act.
Who this affects
- the Airports Company of Zimbabwe and the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe
- airlines and airport users affected by revenue sharing
- parties to aviation accident and incident investigations
- aviation lawyers and regulatory advisers
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.