NOTICE OF MAKING OF
CIVIL AVIATION ORDER 48.1 INSTRUMENT 2013
Notification under subregulation 5 (3) of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988
For subregulation 5 (3) of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR 1988), notice of the making of Civil Aviation Order 48.1 Instrument 2013 (the new CAO) is given.
The new CAO is designed to provide AOC holders and flight crew members with a comprehensive regulatory framework for the more effective management of fatigue risk in aviation operations. It creates fatigue risk management obligations for all AOC holders and all holders of flight crew licences. It contains, among other things, directions about operations manuals under subregulation 215 (3) of CAR 1988.
The new CAO was made on 28 March 2013 and commences on 30 April 2013 (with some delayed and transitional effects), after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI), FRLI number F2013L00628.
Under subregulation 38 (2) of CAR 1988, a direction is not binding on a person unless it has been served on that person.
Under subregulation 5 (3), a direction that is issued in Civil Aviation Orders is taken to have been served on a person to whom the direction relates on the day on which notice of the making of the Order is notified in the Gazette.
[Signed Adam Anastasi]
Adam Anastasi
General Counsel and
Executive Manager
Legal Services Division
CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY AUTHORITY
9 April 2013