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Instrument number CASA EX64/24

I, steven James campbell, Executive Manager, National Operations & Standards, a delegate of CASA, make this instrument under regulations 11.160 and 11.205 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.

[Signed S. Campbell]
Steven Campbell
Executive Manager, National Operations & Standards
21 October 2024
CASA EX64/24 – Indoor Operation of RPA Near People and BVLOS – Training and Use – Renewal Exemption Instrument 2024

1 Name of instrument
        This instrument is CASA EX64/24 – Indoor Operation of RPA Near People and BVLOS – Training and Use – Renewal Exemption Instrument 2024.

2 Duration
        This instrument:
(a) commences on the day after it is registered; and
(b) is repealed at the end of 30 September 2025.
Note   The instrument is still in a training and trial phase and, depending on progress, may be further renewed before or after 30 September 2025.

3 Definitions, etc.
       (1) In this instrument, unless the contrary intention appears:
BVLOS: see subsection (2).
CASR means the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998.
documented practices and procedures has the meaning given by the Part 101 Manual of Standards.
Note   Documented practices and procedures must be approved by CASA. If a further change is required after such an approval has been given, the documented practices and procedures must be reapproved if they are to comply with the definition.
emergency service operation has the meaning given by the CASR Dictionary.
emergency service RPA operation, or ESRO, means an operation by a police force or service involving an RPA that is for:
(a) law enforcement purposes using the RPA; or
(b) the purpose of saving or protecting persons or property using the RPA.
emergency service RPA operator means an RPA operator that is a police force or service which may lawfully conduct an ESRO.
ESRO: see the definition of emergency service RPA operation.
internal operation means the operation of an RPA within a building, a structure, a naturally occurring space, or another space created by human effort (the internal place) and within 30 m of a person, whether or not it is physically impossible for the RPA to escape and fly away from the internal place if the RPA is no longer under the control of the remote pilot operating the RPA. An internal operation includes a transit operation.
internal place has the same meaning as in the definition of internal operation.
police force or service means a police force or a police service, for the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, that is:
(a) established by or under an Act of the Commonwealth Parliament, the State Parliament or the Territory Legislative Assembly; and
(b) the holder of remotely piloted aircraft operator certificate under Part 101 of CASR.
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