CASA EX132/16 Exemption — DAMP requirements for maintenance organisations outside Australian territory (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX132/16

I, Gerard John Campbell, Safety Assurance Senior Manager, Aviation Group, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR 1998).

[Signed G.J. Campbell]

Gerard J. Campbell
Safety Assurance Senior Manager
Aviation Group

25 August 2016

Exemption — DAMP requirements for maintenance organisations outside Australian territory

1          Duration

                 This instrument:

(a)   commences on 1 September 2016; and

(b)   is repealed at the end of 31 August 2019.

2          Application

                 This instrument applies to a DAMP organisation that:

(a)   is the holder of a certificate of approval or is a Part 145 organisation; and

(b)   performs an applicable SSAA or employs or engages, by arrangement, another person to perform an applicable SSAA in relation to Australian aircraft:

             (i)  in accordance with the organisation’s certificate of approval or approval as a Part 145 organisation; and

            (ii)  outside Australian territory; and

(c)   has not developed and implemented a DAMP that covers the performance of the applicable SSAA outside Australian territory.

3          Exemption

                 The DAMP organisation is exempt from compliance with the requirements mentioned in regulations 99.030, 99.035 and 99.040 of CASR 1998 in relation to the organisation or persons performing the applicable SSAAs outside Australian territory.

4          Conditions

                 The exemption is subject to the following conditions:

(a)   the DAMP organisation must implement measures to ensure that a person performing the applicable SSAA is not affected by alcohol;

(b)   the DAMP organisation must implement measures to ensure that a person performing the applicable SSAA is not affected by a testable drug unless the testable drug is in the form of medication that:

             (i)  the person is taking under the direction and supervision of a medical practitioner registered to practice medicine in the place where the person is performing the applicable SSAA; and

            (ii)  is of a kind that does not affect the person’s performance of SSAA in a way that could affect the safety of air navigation;

(c)   the DAMP organisation must notify CASA in writing of the measures it has implemented within 21 days of implementing the measures.

Note   A number of words and expressions used in this instrument have the meaning given by the Civil Aviation Act 1988, Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 or CASR 1998. For example:

·applicable SSAA

·certificate of approval

·DAMP organisation

·Part 145 organisation

·safety-sensitive aviation activities

·SSAA.