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the descent, wear a parachute for the duration of the flight.
 (2) A parachuting training organisation must not provide training in parachute descents, or in supervising a parachute descent, if a chief parachuting instructor has not been appointed for the organisation under section 5.44.

5.46  Display descents—display organisers
 (1) A Part 105 ASAO that administers display descents must have safe conduct procedures, set out in its exposition, that require:
 (a) a person, whom the ASAO has authorised to be a display organiser, to be responsible for the management and oversight of a parachuting display at which display descents administered by the ASAO will be undertaken; and
 (b) the display organiser to be responsible for nominating ground control assistants to conduct ground control for display descents undertaken at the parachuting display; and
 (c) the display organiser to ensure, for each display descent undertaken during the parachuting display, that a person qualified as required under paragraph 5.27(2)(a) or (b) is performing duties as the drop zone safety officer for the descent.
Note: If a display descent is a tandem descent, the drop zone safety officer performing duties for the descent must have been authorised as mentioned in paragraph 5.27(2)(a).
 (2) The ASAO must set out in its exposition:
 (a) the experience and qualifications required for the grant of the display organiser authorisation; and
 (b) the duties and responsibilities of a display organiser in relation to a parachuting display; and
 (c) the duties and responsibilities of a ground control assistant in relation to a parachuting display.
 (3) A display organiser for a parachuting display must ensure, for each display event in the parachuting display, that:
 (a) there is a drop zone safety officer performing duties for the descent; and
 (b)  there is a ground control assistant conducting ground control.

Drop zone safety officers for display descents
 (4) The display organiser, for a display descent:
 (a) may act as the drop zone safety officer, if the display organiser:
 (i) is qualified as required under paragraph 5.27(2)(a) or (b) to supervise the descent; and
 (ii) will directly supervise the parachuting display; or
 (b) must nominate a person who is qualified as required under paragraph 5.27(2)(a) or (b) to act as the drop zone safety officer supervising the descent.
Note: See the definition of direct supervision in section 1.04.
 (5) The display organiser must not nominate a person to act as the drop zone safety officer for a display descent if:
 (a) the person is not qualified as required under paragraph 5.27(2)(a) or (b); or
 (b) the person will not be able to directly supervise the parachuting display.

Ground control assistants for display descents
 (6) The display organiser must not nominate a person to be the