CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 396

CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 396

STATUTORY RULES 1994 No. 396

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Transport

Civil Aviation Act 1988

Civil Aviation Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 98(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1988 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations for the purposes of the Act and in relation to the safety of air navigation.

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend the Civil Aviation Regulations.

The amendments of regulation 31 provide that the practical experience that is required by applicants for aircraft maintenance engineer licences must be set out in Civil Aviation Orders.

The amendments of regulation 42G remove the right of the holder of a student pilot licence who has passed a general flying progress flight test for a particular category of aircraft to inspect the flight control system of an Australian aircraft belonging to that category after part of that system has been assembled, adjusted, repaired, modified or replaced.

The amendments of regulation 42ZC remove the right of the holder of a student pilot licence who has passed a general flying progress flight test for a particular category of aircraft to carry out maintenance of a kind specified in Schedule 8 on a class B aircraft belonging to that category.

The Civil Aviation Authority is currently reviewing the maintenance that may be performed by student pilots.

The Regulations commenced on gazettal.

DETAILS OF THE AMENDMENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

REGULATION 1

This regulation provides that the Civil Aviation Regulations are amended as set out in the Regulations.

REGULATION 2

This regulation makes 3 amendments of regulation 31.

Subregulation 2.1 amends regulation 31 to provide that the practical experience that is required by applicants for aircraft maintenance engineer licences must be set out in Civil Aviation Orders. Civil Aviation Orders are subject to Parliamentary scrutiny.

Subregulations 2.2 and 2.3 omit subregulations 31(5A) and 31(7), respectively. These subregulations allowed the practical experience required of applicants to be set out in publications that were not Civil Aviation Orders.

REGULATION 3

This regulation makes 2 amendments of regulation 42G.

Subregulation 3.1 omits paragraphs 42G(5)(ba) which gave the holder of a student pilot licence, who has passed a general flying progress flight test for a particular category of aircraft, the right to inspect the flight control system of an Australian aircraft belonging to that category of aircraft.

Subregulation 3.2 omits subregulation 42G(8) which defined what the particular categories of aircraft were.

REGULATION 4

This regulation makes 2 amendments of regulation 42M.

Subregulation 4.1 omits paragraph 42ZQ4(da) which gave the holder of a student pilot licence, who has pass a general flying progress flight test for a particular category of aircraft, the right to carry out limited maintenance of a kind specified in Schedule 8 on a class B aircraft belonging to that category.

Subregulation 4.2 omits subregulation 42ZC(11) which defined what the particular categories of aircraft were.