Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 42.690

  (1)   If the maintenance is carried out by an individual on behalf of an approved maintenance organisation, the organisation must ensure that maintenance certification for the maintenance is performed on behalf of the organisation:

  (a)   by an individual mentioned in subregulation   (2); and

  (b)   before the organisation issues a certificate of release to service for the aircraft in relation to the maintenance.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

  (2)   For paragraph   (1)(a), the individual must be a certifying employee of the organisation:

  (a)   whose certification authorisation permits him or her to perform maintenance certification for the maintenance; and

  (b)   who carried out the maintenance, or supervised the carrying out of the maintenance by another individual.

  (3)   An offence against subregulation   (1) is an offence of strict liability.