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DLM 7 of 2021 - 12 May 2021 (ref: https://www.aph.gov.au/-/media/Committee...6A689BB3A0 )

Point of interest under Appendix A - New Matters: 



Here is a link for the bollocks 79 page, 33196 word amendment: 

CIVIL AVIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (FLIGHT OPERATIONS--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS 2021 (F2021L00200)

Yawn -    - extract from the Explanatory Statement: 

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Issued by the authority of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Flight Operations - Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021

The Civil Aviation Act 1988 (the Act) establishes the regulatory framework for maintaining, enhancing and promoting the safety of civil aviation, with particular emphasis on preventing aviation accidents and incidents.

Subsection 98(1) of the Act provides, in part, that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act. Subsection 98(1) also provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purpose of carrying out and giving effect to the provisions of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention) relating to aviation safety, and in relation to the safety of air navigation, being regulations with respect to any other matters to which the Parliament has power to make laws.

Subsection 9(1) of the Act specifies, in part, that the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has the function of conducting the safety regulation of civil air operations in Australian territory by means that include developing and promulgating appropriate, clear and concise aviation safety standards and issuing certificates, licences, registrations and permits.

Parts 91, 119, 121, 133, 135 and 138 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (CASR) were made on 6 December 2018. Parts 103, 105 and 131 of CASR were made on 12 December 2019. Related amendments to the CASR Dictionary were made in a separate regulation on 4 April 2019. Miscellaneous amendments to various CASR Parts were made on 1 October 2020. Collectively these Parts comprise the flight operations regulations (FOR). The FOR replace the old flight operations rules contained in the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (CAR) and Civil Aviation Orders (CAOs). The FOR regulate the safety of flight operations, including the rules by which all pilots operate aircraft and detailed requirements for the conduct of certain commercial and other operations.

The FOR do not in themselves contain a transition period. Except where CASA defers requirements as mentioned below, aircraft operators, pilots and other crew members are required to comply with the FOR on and from 2 December 2021.

The purpose of the Civil Aviation Legislation Amendment (Flight Operations - Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) is to provide for a smooth transition from the old rules to the FOR for operators, pilots, crew members and others. It does this primarily by:

*        making consequential amendments to CAR and CASR to:

o  repeal CAR provisions that are being replaced by the FOR

o  move the content of some CAR provisions and definitions that are being retained from the CAR into the CASR, and

o  update CAR and CASR provisions to refer to the new rules contained in, and concepts used by, the FOR;

*        making minor technical amendments to CAR and CASR provisions as necessary or appropriate to ensure the proper functioning of the regulations; and

*        amending Part 202 of CASR to insert transitional, application and savings provisions that provide for the transition from the old rules to the FOR.

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