Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00333:reg:9:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00333
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 16/19)
Character Range: 216183–219106

— training in the procedures.

14.08  Recurrent training and checking
 (1) The medical transport specialist must have successfully completed the operator's recurrent training and checking for the aeroplane, in accordance with the requirements stated in subsections (3) and (4).
 (2) The operator's recurrent training and checking, for the aeroplane, in relation to the use of life rafts or life jackets does not need to include in-water practical training.
 (3) The medical transport specialist must successfully undertake the operator's medical transport specialist general emergency check of competency, for the relevant kind of aeroplane, as follows:
 (a) in relation to the use of life rafts — subject to subsection (5), at intervals of not more than 3 years after the previous check;
 (b) otherwise — subject to subsection (5), at intervals of not more than 1 year after the previous check.
 (4) Subject to subsection (5), the medical transport specialist must successfully undertake the operator's medical transport specialist proficiency check, for the relevant kind of aeroplane, initially 1 year after first commencing unsupervised line operations for the operator, and then at intervals of 1 year after the previous proficiency check.
 (5) Any check of competency or proficiency mentioned in this section, required to be completed at intervals of 1 or years, successfully completed within 90 days before, or after, its due date is taken to meet the requirements stated in this section as if it had been completed on the due date.
 (6) A medical transport specialist who fails to demonstrate competency or continuing competency, for the relevant kind of aeroplane, under this section must not perform the duties of a medical transport specialist in the relevant kind of aeroplane unless the medical transport specialist has met the remedial training requirements stated in section 14.09.
Note: The operator of an aeroplane for a flight commits an offence if the operator assigns a person to duty as a medical transport specialist for the flight and the person has not been assessed by the operator, in accordance with the operator's exposition, as competent to perform the duties assigned to the person for the flight: see regulation 135.465 of CASR.

14.09  Remedial training
 (1) This section applies if a medical transport specialist fails the operator's medical transport specialist general emergency check of competency, or medical transport specialist proficiency check, under section 14.08 for a specific kind of aeroplane.
 (2) The medical transport specialist must have successfully completed the operator's remedial training for the relevant kind of aeroplane, in accordance with subsection (3).
 (3) Before being assigned by the operator to duty as a medical transport specialist for a flight in the relevant kind of aeroplane, the medical transport specialist must:
 (a) successfully complete a program