Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) An operator shall not assign a person to act as a crew member of an aircraft, and a person shall not act as a crew member of an aircraft, unless the person is competent in the use of the emergency and life‑saving equipment carried in the aircraft.
(2) An operator shall ensure that crew members are periodically tested as to competency in the use of the emergency and life‑saving equipment carried in the aircraft to which they are assigned.
(3) The operator of an aircraft which is used in over‑water flights shall ensure that each crew member is instructed in ditching and abandon ship procedures in so far as is practicable and that he or she is periodically tested as to his or her knowledge of those procedures.
(4) The operator of an aircraft shall detail a crew member to ensure that passengers are made familiar with the location of emergency exits in the aircraft in which they are travelling and the location and use of emergency equipment carried in the aircraft.
(5) The training and testing of crew members and the familiarization of passengers as required under the provisions of this regulation shall be carried out in such manner as CASA specifies to be satisfactory.
(6) CASA may issue directions as to the carriage in aircraft, and the use in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as CASA specifies, of medicinal preparations and drugs, including morphine and compounds of morphine or other opium alkaloids.
(6A) A person must not contravene a direction.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
(6B) An offence against subregulation (6A) is an offence of strict liability.
Note For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(7) Any medicinal preparations or drugs may be carried and used in aircraft in accordance with a direction given by CASA in pursuance of subregulation (6) without any licence, authority or other permission prescribed or required by or under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth.