(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

"accident" means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time that a person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and the time when that person disembarks during which time

(a) a person is fatally or seriously injured as a result of being in the aircraft, or in exposure to direct contact with a part of the aircraft, or in direct jet blast;

(b) the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure;

(c) the aircraft is missing or completely inaccessible;

"Accra Flight Information Region" means an air space of defined dimensions within which flight information services and alerting services are provided;

"aerodrome" includes an area of land or water, buildings, installations and equipment intended to be used, wholly or partly, for the arrival, departure or surface movement of aircraft and the property and the precincts of the Authority;

"airport" means an airfield where aircraft land and take off usually with facility for passengers, goods and customs;

"air transport services" means a service for the carriage by air of passengers, mails or other freight;

"Auditor-General" includes an auditor appointed by the Auditor-General;

"Authority" means the Civil Aviation Authority established under section 1;

"Chicago Convention" means the Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on the 7th day of December, 1944;

"Court" means a court of competent jurisdiction;

"Director-General" means the Director-General of Civil Aviation;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"highway" includes a road and a path being used by the public for purposes of passage;

"incident" means an occurrence which is not an accident and which affects or could affect the safety or operation of an aircraft;

"income surplus account" has the meaning assigned to it by sections 69 and 70 of the Companies Code 1963 (Act 179);

"land" includes an estate and any other interest in or right over land;

"local authority" means a District Assembly, a Metropolitan Assembly, a Municipal Assembly or a lower local government unit established under the Local Government Act, 1993 (Act 462);

"loss or damage" includes in relation to persons, loss of life and personal injury;

"member" means a member of the Board;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for aviation;

"Organization" means the International Civil Aviation Organization;

"purpose of civil aviation" includes the purposes connected with air navigation except purposes of defence;

"Regulations" means Regulations made under this Act;

"Republic" means the Republic of Ghana;

"Rome Convention" means the Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to damage caused by aircraft to third parties on the surface signed in Rome on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1933.

"Rules of Court" means the Rules of court made by the Rules of Court Committee constituted under article 157 of the Constitution.

(2) A reference in this Act to the carrying out of works on land includes a reference to the making of excavations on the land, and references to the maintenance of works or to the interference with works shall be construed accordingly.

(3) A reference in this Act,

(a) to goods or articles includes a reference to mails and animals;

(b) to a country or territory includes a reference to the territorial waters adjacent to that country or territory.