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CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 67.270

Offence--doing act while efficiency impaired--licence holders

  (1)   This regulation applies in relation to the following licences:

  (a)   a flight crew licence;

  (b)   a balloon flight crew licence within the meaning of subregulation   5.01(1) of CAR;

  (c)   an ATC licence.

  (2)   The holder commits an offence if:

  (a)   the holder does an act authorised by the licence; and

  (b)   at the time of doing the act:

  (i)   the holder knows that he or she has a medically significant condition; and

  (ii)   the condition has the result that the holder's ability to do the act is impaired.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

Class 1 medical certificates

  (3)   The holder commits an offence if:

  (a)   the holder does an act authorised by the licence; and

  (b)   the holder knows that he or she has had a condition mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b); and

  (c)   the holder's normal ability to do the act is not fully restored within 7 days after the holder first becomes aware that he or she had the condition; and

  (d)   the holder is authorised to do the act only if the holder also holds a class 1 medical certificate; and

  (e)   the holder has not been given a certificate by a DAME to the effect that the holder's normal ability to do the act is no longer impaired.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

Class 2 and 3 medical certificates

  (4)   The holder commits an offence if:

  (a)   the holder does an act authorised by the licence; and

  (b)   the holder knows that he or she has had a condition mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b); and

  (c)   the holder's normal ability to do the act is not fully restored within 30 days after the holder first becomes aware that he or she had the condition; and

  (d)   the holder is authorised to do the act only if the holder also holds a class 1, 2 or 3 medical certificate; and

  (e)   the holder has not been given a certificate by a DAME to the effect that the holder's normal ability to do the act is no longer impaired.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

Recreational aviation medical practitioner's certificates

  (5)   The holder commits an offence if:

  (a)   the holder does an act authorised by the licence; and

  (b)   the holder knows that he or she has had a condition mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b); and

  (c)   the holder's normal ability to do the act is not fully restored within 30 days after the holder first becomes aware that he or she had the condition; and

  (d)   the holder is authorised to do the act only if the holder also holds a class 1, 2 or 3 medical certificate or a recreational aviation medical practitioner's certificate; and

  (e)   the holder does not meet the requirement in subregulation   (6).

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

  (6)   For paragraph   (5)(e), the requirement is that:

  (a)   the holder has been given a certificate by a DAME to the effect that the holder's normal ability to do the act is no longer impaired; or

  (b)   if the holder held a recreational aviation medical practitioner's certificate at the time the holder had the condition--the holder is:

  (i)   assessed by a medical practitioner as meeting the modified Austroads medical standards after having the condition; and

  (ii)   given a certificate by the medical practitioner to that effect.

Note:   For when a person meets the modified Austroads medical standards, see regulation   67.262.


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