Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04932:body:0:p14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04932
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written notice to an applicant for a foreign aircraft AOC, requiring the applicant to give CASA all or any of the following:

    (a) a copy of any air operator's certificate, or any document having substantially the same effect, issued by the authority responsible for regulating civil aviation in the country in which the aircraft is registered or operating;

    (b) a copy of any limitations or conditions imposed by the authority on operations conducted or carried out by the applicant, unless those limitations or conditions are specified in a certificate or document specified in paragraph (a);

    (c) copies of any operational authorisations or requirements, however described, issued by the authority in relation to the operations of the applicant, unless those authorisations or requirements are specified in a certificate or document specified in paragraph (a) or (b);

    (d) written particulars of all licences held by flight crew members intended to be engaged in carrying out operations under the foreign aircraft AOC.

"(2) CASA must state in the notice whether the applicant is to comply with the notice:

    (a) in addition to complying with the lodgment requirements of section 27AB; or

    (b) instead of complying with those requirements, or such of them as are identified in the notice.

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"(3) If the notice indicates that the applicant is to do something instead of complying with all or any of the requirements of section 27AB, the applicant need not comply with those requirements of section 27AB.

"(4) In this section:

'foreign aircraft AOC' means an AOC authorising the operation of a foreign registered aircraft on flights that are not domestic commercial flights.

CASA not required to consider application until requirements complied with

"27AF. CASA may refuse to consider an application, or to consider it further, while there are requirements under this Subdivision that the applicant has not complied with.

"Subdivision C—Operation of a foreign aircraft without AOC".

73. Section 27A:

Omit "the Authority" (wherever occurring), substitute "CASA".

74. Section 27A:

Omit "The Authority" (wherever occurring), substitute "CASA".

75. Paragraph 27A(1)(b):

Omit "Air Operator's Certificate", substitute "AOC".

    Note: The heading to section 27A is altered by omitting "Air Operator's Certificate" and substituting "AOC".

76. After section 27A:

Insert:

"Subdivision D—Issue of AOCs".

77. Section 28:

Repeal the section, substitute:

CASA must issue AOC if satisfied about certain matters

"28.(1) If a person applies to CASA for an AOC, CASA must issue the AOC if, and only if:

    (a) CASA is satisfied that the applicant has complied with, or is capable of complying with, the provisions of this Act, the regulations and the Civil Aviation Orders, that relate to safety, including provisions about the competence of persons to do anything that would be covered by