Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1988 NO. 158 CIVIL AVIATION REGULATIONS - REG 24

24. (1) The owner or operator of, or any other person having an interest in,
an Australian aircraft may apply to the Authority or an authorised person for
the issue or renewal of a certificate of airworthiness in respect of the
aircraft or for the validation of a certificate of airworthiness issued by the
appropriate authority of a Contracting State in respect of the aircraft.

(2) If an applicant under subregulation (1):

   (a)  furnishes to the Authority or the authorised person such documents or
        other evidence as the Authority or the authorised person requires
        relating to the fitness for flying of the aircraft to which the
        application relates;

   (b)  satisfies the Authority or the authorised person that:

        (i)    the aircraft was manufactured by the holder of a certificate of
               approval with respect to that manufacture;

        (ii)   approval for the manufacture of the aircraft was given by the
               Authority and the aircraft was manufactured in accordance with
               that approval; or (iii) there has been issued by the
               appropriate authority of the country from which the aircraft
               has been exported to Australia a certificate with respect to
               the airworthiness of the aircraft that is acceptable to the
               Authority;

   (c)  satisfies the Authority or the authorised person that the aircraft,
        when operated in accordance with the requirements specified in the
        flight manual for the aircraft, conforms to:

        (i)    where there is a certificate of type approval in force in
               respect of the type of aircraft in which the aircraft is
               included-the drawings and specifications approved under
               regulation 22, in respect of that type or, to the extent that
               those drawings and specifications have been superseded by other
               drawings and specifications approved under regulation 35, those
               other drawings and specifications; or

        (ii)   in any other case-any design standard in force under regulation
               21, and any drawings and specifications approved by the
               Authority, in respect of the type of aircraft in which the
               aircraft is included;

   (d)  where there is in force under regulation 25 a direction setting out a
        condition that, if a certificate of airworthiness were issued, renewed
        or validated in accordance with the application, would apply in
        relation to the certificate and would require that certain maintenance
        be carried out before the aircraft was flown-satisfies the Authority
        or the authorised person that that maintenance has been certified by a
        person acceptable to the Authority to have been carried out and that
        there is no reason to doubt that that maintenance has been carried
        out;

   (e)  satisfies the Authority or the authorised person that any maintenance
        required to be carried out to comply with any requirement imposed
        under regulation 38 has been certified to have been completed in
        accordance with a system of certification instituted under regulation
        34 and that there is no reason to doubt that that maintenance has been
        carried out; and

   (f)  satisfies the Authority or the authorised person that the aircraft is
        fit to fly, having regard to the requirements specified in the
        flight manual for the aircraft; the Authority or the authorised person
        shall, subject to subregulation (3), issue to the applicant a
        certificate of airworthiness or renew the certificate of airworthiness
        of the aircraft or validate the certificate of airworthiness of the
        aircraft issued by the appropriate authority of a Contracting State,
        as the case may be.

(3) Where an aircraft is included in a type of aircraft, or is fitted with an
aircraft component included in a type of aircraft component, specified in
Civil Aviation Orders under regulation 23, the Authority or an authorised
person shall not issue a certificate of airworthiness in respect of the
aircraft unless there is in force a certificate of type approval in respect of
the type of aircraft or aircraft component, as the case may be.

(4) The Authority may specify in a certificate of airworthiness granted under
this regulation the period during which the certificate is to remain in force.