Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00187:reg:8:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00187
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 4/9)
Character Range: 365156–367883

subsection (1), when working out the number of life rafts to be carried on an aircraft:
(a) the capacity of a life raft is the rated capacity specified for it by the manufacturer of the life raft; and
(b) the number of infants on board the aircraft need not be taken into account.
       (4) Any overload capacity of a life raft is not to be taken into account in determining its capacity for the purposes of paragraph (3) (a).

26.61 Stowage of life rafts
       (1) This section applies to an aircraft that is required to carry a life raft under this Division.
       (2) The life raft must be stowed and secured so that it can be readily deployed if the aircraft has to ditch.
        (3) If a life raft is stowed in a compartment or container, the compartment or container must be conspicuously marked as containing the life raft.

26.62 Overwater survival equipment
       (1) This section applies if an aircraft is required to carry a life raft under section 26.60.
       (2) When the aircraft begins the flight, it must carry the following:
(a) survival equipment for sustaining life, as appropriate for the overwater area to be overflown;
(b) signalling equipment that can make the distress signals set out in Appendix 1 to ICAO Annex 2, Rules of the Air if required.

Division 26.15 Remote areas

26.63 Definitions
        In this Division:
Central Australia remote area has the meaning given by section 26.65.
remote area means 1 of the following:
(a) Central Australia remote area;
(b) Snowy Mountains remote area;
(c) Tasmania remote area.
Snowy Mountains remote area has the meaning given by section 26.65.
Tasmania remote area has the meaning given by section 26.65.
Note   The actual definitions are located in section 26.65, adjacent to supporting maps.

26.64 Remote area survival equipment
       (1) This section applies to the flight of an aircraft over a remote area.
       (2) When the aircraft begins the flight, it must carry survival equipment for sustaining life, as appropriate for the remote area to be overflown.

26.65 Meaning of remote area
       (1) Central Australia remote area means the area of Australia, illustrated by the shading in Figure 26.65-1 Central Australia remote area, that:
(a) is enclosed within the boundary of the following lines: a line from Kalgoorlie to Leigh Creek, to Bourke, to Mt Isa, to Townsville, to Cairns, then following the coast north to Cape Horn, then along the coastline of the Gulf of Carpentaria and on to Darwin, then following the coastline to Anna Plains, then to Wiluna, to Laverton, and back to Kalgoorlie; and
(b) includes Australian-administered islands adjacent to the remote area between Cairns and Anna Plains; and
(c) excludes the area within