Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A recording is a CVR (or cockpit voice recording ) for the purposes of this Part if:
(a) the recording consists of (or consists mainly of) sounds or images, or sounds and images, of persons on the flight deck of an aircraft; and
(b) the recording was made in order to comply with a law of the Commonwealth; and
(c) either of the following applies:
(i) any part of the recording was made while the aircraft was on a constitutional journey, or was made incidentally to such a journey;
(ii) at the time when the recording was made, the aircraft was owned or operated by a constitutional corporation or Commonwealth entity; and
(d) the recording is not an on - board recording for the purposes of the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 .
(2) In this section:
"constitutional journey" means:
(a) a journey in the course of trade or commerce with other countries or among the States; or
(b) a journey within a Territory, or to or from a Territory; or
(c) a journey within a Commonwealth place, or to or from a Commonwealth place.