Part 1Preliminary, Definitions and Application

Part 1 Preliminary, Definitions and Application

1 Name

This instrument is CASA EX68/24 – Part 119 of CASR – Supplementary Exemptions and Directions Instrument 2024.

2 Repeal

This instrument is repealed at the end of 1 December 2027.

Note Some provisions of this instrument provide that they may cease to have effect at a specified time before they would otherwise be repealed by this section (see subsections 8(5), 10(5) and 14(4)).

3 Definitions

Note In this instrument, certain terms and expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Act and the regulations. These include civil aviation legislation which is defined in section 3 of the Act, and CAR, CASR, exposition, medical certificate, operational safety-critical personnel, Part 121 Manual of Standards, safety management system and scheduled air transport operation which are defined in the CASR Dictionary.

In this instrument:

aerial work (air ambulance) operation has the same meaning as in regulation 202.405 of CASR.

ATPL is short for air transport pilot licence.

Australian air transport operation has the meaning given by regulation 119.010 of CASR.

Australian air transport operator has the meaning given by subregulation 119.015(2) of CASR.

CAO means Civil Aviation Order.

charter operations has the same meaning as it had in regulation 206 of CAR immediately before 2 December 2021.

early applicant, for a particular AOC or AOC variation, means a person:

(a) who at least 90 days before 2 December 2021 — applied for the AOC or AOC variation under the civil aviation legislation in force on the date of the application; but

(b) whose application was still under consideration by CASA on 2 December 2021.

exposition content, for a safety system, means the exposition content required for the safety system under Part 119 of CASR, and under any applicable related requirements under Part 121, Part 133 and Part 135 of CASR.

FDAP is short for flight data analysis program.

HFP&NTS program means an Australian air transport operator’s program for training and assessing operational safety-critical personnel in human factors principles and non-technical skills.