CASA EX29/23 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2023

Instrument number CASA EX29/23

I, PHILIPPA JILLIAN SPENCE, Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulations 11.160 and 11.205 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed P. Spence]

Pip Spence
Director of Aviation Safety

12 May 2023

CASA EX29/23 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2023

1 Name

This instrument is CASA EX29/23 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2023.

2 Duration

This instrument:

(a) commences on the day after it is registered; and

(b) is repealed at the end of 30 April 2025.

3 Exemption and condition

(1) This section applies to a DAME who is dealing with an application made by a person under regulation 67.210 of CASR for an extension of the person’s medical certificate.

(2) For the purposes of regulation 11.160 of CASR, the DAME is exempt from compliance with subregulation 67.220(4) of CASR to the extent that it requires the DAME to limit the period within which the DAME could extend the period that a medical certificate remains in force to 2 months after the day when the certificate would otherwise expire.

(3) For the purposes of regulation 11.205 of CASR, the exemption is subject to the condition that the DAME must not extend the period during which the certificate remains in force for longer than 4 months after the day when the certificate would expire if the period had not been extended.

Note In this instrument, certain terms and expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Civil Aviation Act 1988 and the regulations. These include: DAME and medical certificate.