Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) The design assurance system must include policies and procedures for the conduct of design activities that the organisation is approved to carry out.
(2) The design assurance system must enable the organisation to ensure that:
(a) each design activity that the organisation carries out is controlled and managed in a way that ensures that the aircraft or aeronautical product in relation to which the activity is carried out complies with the applicable airworthiness standards for the aircraft or aeronautical product; and
(b) no design activity that the organisation carries out introduces an unsafe feature or characteristic to an aircraft or aeronautical product to which the activity relates; and
(c) each design activity that the organisation is approved to carry out is carried out in accordance with:
(ii) the conditions of the organisation's approval.
(3) The design assurance system must include procedures for:
(a) independent monitoring of:
(i) the adequacy of the design assurance system to enable the organisation to ensure the matters mentioned in subregulation (2); and
(ii) compliance by the organisation and its subcontractors (if any) with the requirements of the design assurance system; and
(b) providing feedback to the organisation's head of design.
(4) The design assurance system must also include procedures for independent checking of each design activity the organisation carries out to ensure that:
(a) each aircraft or aeronautical product to which the design activity relates complies with the applicable airworthiness requirements (if any) for the aircraft or aeronautical product; and
(b) for an approval activity--carrying out the activity would not be likely to have an adverse effect on the safety of air navigation; and
(c) for an experimental certificate activity--carrying out the activity would not be likely to have an adverse effect on the safety of other airspace users or persons on the ground or water.
(5) For subregulation (4), independent checking of a design activity must:
(a) involve a comprehensive and systematic examination of the activity to evaluate the adequacy and accuracy of its assumptions, methodology, calculations and conclusions; and
(b) be carried out by an individual who has the knowledge, experience and qualifications:
(i) required by the organisation's exposition for individuals carrying out the design activity; or
(ii) prescribed by the Part 21 Manual of Standards; and
(5A) The individual mentioned in paragraph (5)(b) must not be the individual who carried out the design activity for the organisation.
(6) Subregulation (4) does not apply to an activity mentioned in paragraph (d) or (e) of the definition of experimental certificate activity in regulation 21.233.
(7) Subregulation (4) does not apply in relation to a kind of
design activity prescribed by the Part 21 Manual of Standards.