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CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025

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From 1 May 2025 until 30 April 2028, this instrument allows Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (DAMEs) to extend a person’s aviation medical certificate for up to four months rather than being limited to a two‑month extension under existing CASR rules. It affects DAMEs and holders/applicants for medical certificates by changing a compliance obligation and allowing longer temporary certificate validity without an immediate full reassessment.

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CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025

Instrument number CASA EX48/25

I, Daniel bernard o’hagan, Section Manager Drafting, Legal, International & Regulatory Affairs Division, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulations 11.160 and 11.205 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed D.B. O’Hagan]

Danny O’Hagan
Section Manager Drafting
Legal, International & Regulatory Affairs Division

28 April 2025

CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025

1 Name

This instrument is CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025.

2 Duration

This instrument:

(a) commences on 1 May 2025; and

(b) is repealed at the end of 30 April 2028.

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.

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1 CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025

Instrument number CASA EX48/25

[Signed D.B. O’Hagan]

Danny O’Hagan
Section Manager Drafting
Legal, International & Regulatory Affairs Division

28 April 2025

CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025

1 Name

This instrument is CASA EX48/25 — Designated Aviation Medical Examiners (Extending Medical Certificates) Exemption 2025.

2 Duration

This instrument:

(a) commences on 1 May 2025; and

(b) is repealed at the end of 30 April 2028.

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.

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.