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academic qualifications
       5.1.1.1The minimum academic qualification for technicians performing operation and maintenance functions associated with aeronautical telecommunication facilities and/or radionavigation facilities is a diploma of technology in one of the following:
(a) radio engineering;
(b) communications engineering;
(c) electrical engineering;
(d) electronic engineering;
(e) computer science;
(f) information technology; or
(g) qualifications equivalent to the above qualifications.
       5.1.1.2For those technicians that carry out or supervise electrical and mechanical trades work only, the minimum qualification is an electrical or mechanical trades qualification, as relevant.
       5.1.1.3Where an organisation considers, and CASA agrees, that the operation and maintenance of a particular type of facility is not technically complex, lesser qualifications may be acceptable for those technicians who operate and maintain that type of facility.
Section 5.2 Technician training and certification

     5.2.1 Authorising certificate
       5.2.1.1Approved organisations provide technicians with an authorising certificate which:
(a) establishes the identity of the technician;
(b) details the scope of the authorisation granted to the technician by listing the facilities, or types of facilities, which the technician is authorised to operate and/or maintain; and
(c) includes a date of effect, and the period of time for which each of the authorisations remain current.
       5.2.1.2An organisation must not grant a technician an authorising certificate in respect to a particular facility or a class of facility unless it has established that the technician:
(a) has undergone a competency based course of instruction or on-the-job training specific to that facility or that class of facility; and
(b) has been assessed to be competent in the operation and maintenance of the facility or the class of facility by an assessor who:
 (i) has been trained and accredited in the Assessment Units of Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training as developed under the auspices of the Australian National Training Authority; and
 (ii) holds formal recognition of competency in the unit being assessed, at or above the level being assessed; and has current knowledge of the workplace and job/role of the person being assessed.
(c) However, if an assessor does not have all the competencies at (b) (i) and (b) (ii), one person with the competencies in (b) (i) and one or more persons with the competencies in (b) (ii) may work together to conduct assessments.

     5.2.2 Refresher training and recency checking procedure
       5.2.2.1Approved organisations must also have a process for refresher training and recency checking of technicians to ensure the on-going retention of technician's competency on the facility types for which an authorising certificate has been granted.

Chapter 6              Test equipment and test facilities
CASR reference: CASR Part 171.070
         Section 6.1 Test facilities for aeronautical telecommunication or radio navigation services and facilities

     6.1.1 Standards
       6.1.1.1An organisation has available the necessary test facilities for