CASA EX24/21 — Aircraft Engineer Licence (Basic Practical Maintenance Experience Requirement) Exemption 2021 (Cth)

Instrument number CASA EX24/21

I, GRAEME MILLS CRAWFORD, acting Director of Aviation Safety, on behalf of CASA, make this instrument under regulation 11.160 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations1998.

[Signed G.M. Crawford]

Graeme M. Crawford
Acting Director of Aviation Safety

18 March 2021

CASA EX24/21 — Aircraft Engineer Licence (Basic Practical Maintenance Experience Requirement) Exemption 2021

1          Name

                 This instrument is CASA EX24/21 — Aircraft Engineer Licence (Basic Practical Maintenance Experience Requirement) Exemption 2021.

2          Duration

                 This instrument:

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

(b)   is repealed at the end of 31 January 2024.

3          Definitions

                 In this instrument:

aircraft engineer licence has the meaning given in the CASR Dictionary.

Part 66 MOS means the Part 66 Manual of Standards.

relevant AMC means the acceptable means of compliance entitled AMC 66.A.30(d) Basic experience requirements, set out in AMC/GM to Annex III (Part-66) to Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014, prepared by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, as existing from time to time.

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4          Exemption

        (1)     Aneligibleapplicantisexemptfromcompliancewithsubparagraph66.025(3)(e)(i)of CASR to the extent that the provision requires the person to comply with subparagraph 66.A.30 (d) 2 of the Part 66 MOS.

        (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), an eligible applicant is a person:

(a)   who, at the time of making an application for an aircraft engineer licence, is not a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer; and

(b)   whose practical maintenance experience required under paragraph 66.A.30 (a) of the Part 66 MOS includes at least 1 year of practical maintenance experience, gained on aircraft relevant to the category, or subcategory, of the licence applied for, that CASA is satisfied is recent experience, having regard to the relevant AMC.