Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 42.695

Obligation

  (1)   An individual must not perform maintenance certification for the maintenance on behalf of an approved maintenance organisation unless:

  (a)   he or she is a certifying employee of the organisation whose certification authorisation permits him or her to perform maintenance certification for the maintenance; and

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

Offence for breach of obligation

  (2)   An individual commits an offence if:

  (a)   he or she performs maintenance certification for the maintenance on behalf of an approved maintenance organisation; and

  (b)   either:

  (i)   at the time of performing the maintenance certification, he or she is not a certifying employee of the organisation whose certification authorisation permits him or her to perform the maintenance certification; or

  (ii)   he or she did not carry out the maintenance, or supervise the carrying out of the maintenance by another individual.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

  (3)   An offence against subregulation   (2) is an offence of strict liability.