Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341:body:0:p65
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341
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Character Range: 162163–164974

the proposed operation or the aerial shooting plan.
Note   Any failure to comply with the requirements of this subsection and the risk mitigators in the aerial shooting plan will raise the risk profile of the operation for the aircraft, the crew and third parties, and result in the operation being in breach of subsection (9).
       (11A) Subsection (9) does not apply to an aerial work operation if:
(a) the operation involves the discharge of a firearm from an aircraft (shooting) by a shooter for the purpose of training for police aerial shooting operations from rotorcraft (a shooting training operation); and
(b) the shooter is a task specialist who is a member of 1 of the following:
 (i) a State or Territory police service;
 (ii) the Australian Federal Police;
 (iii) the Australian Defence Force (ADF); and
(c) the shooting training operation is conducted at a place that is, under the laws of the relevant State or Territory, a dedicated shooting range; and
(d) the shooting range has been risk assessed by both of the following (the relevant parties):
 (i) the relevant police service, the AFP or the ADF (as applicable);
 (ii) the operator of the rotorcraft;
 to be a safe place for the proposed operation to occur; and
(e) the relevant parties have devised such location-specific operating procedures and limitations as are necessary to ensure the safe conduct of the operation; and
(f) a record of the risk assessment, and the location-specific operating procedures and limitations, are included in the operator's operations manual.
       (12) In this section:
aerial shooting organisation means a person whose business activity is the humane shooting of animals from the air for the purposes of culling or euthanasia.
Note   An aerial shooting organisation may be a self-employed shooter, or a corporation that engages shooters, or an aerial work operator that conducts aerial shooting.
aerial shooting plan, for a proposed operation, means a plan, specific to the nature and location of the proposed operation, and promptly available to CASA on written request to the operator or the aerial shooting organisation, that identifies and, as far as practicable, mitigates the following that may arise from the proposed operation:
(a) specific hazards to human life and property, both in the air and on the ground; and
(b) the risk of inhumane outcomes for animals.
aerial shooting safety management plan (ASSMP) means a plan, promptly available to CASA on written request to the operator or the aerial shooting organisation, setting out the standard operating procedures of an aerial shooting organisation for the planning, risk assessment, risk mitigation, conduct, WHS compliance, and overall safety of an operation for the humane shooting of an animal from the air.
WHS is short for workplace