Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A service provider must retain each document that:
(a) is given to or is created by or for the service provider; and
(b) could relate to aviation safety; and
(c) helps provide a history of events that relate to the design, installation, testing, operation, maintenance, modification or repair of, or changes to, each facility.
(2) A document for subregulation (1) includes any record of a kind mentioned in the Manual of Standards that is given to, or created by or for, the provider.
Examples: Records of the operational performance of a service, changes to the configuration of a facility, records showing software upgrades, or records of commissioning procedures.
(3) A document retained for this regulation must be:
(a) stored so it can be retrieved if needed for an aviation safety investigation; and
(b) retained for at least 5 years.