Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341:body:0:p64
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00341
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 159665–162403

licenced firearm which in normal operation is designed to eject spent cartridge cases, the ejection must be:
(a) downwards, and not more than 90 degrees back from the line of fire; or
(b) into a rigid container securely attached to the firearm.
       (7) If there is any risk that a cartridge (whether spent or not) may cause foreign object damage to any external or internal part of the aircraft on being ejected from a firearm, a collection case must be used to receive the ejected cartridge.
       (8) Any rigid container or collection case must be securely closed:
(a) during take-off and landing; and
(b) at any other time when the pilot in command directs.
       (9) Subject to subsections (10) and (11A), an aerial work operation whose purpose involves the discharge of a firearm from an aircraft must not occur within 3 NM of any of the following:
(a) an occupied building;
(b) a populous area;
(c) a public gathering.
       (10) 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 the humane killing of an animal that is injured or being culled (the proposed operation); and
(b) the shooter is engaged by an aerial shooting organisation for the proposed operation; and
(c) the aerial work operator has a procedure in its operations manual for compliance with Chapter 13 in relation to the proposed operation; and
(d) the aerial shooting organisation complies with the requirements in subsection (11).
       (11) For the proposed operation, the aerial shooting organisation must:
(a) have an aerial shooting safety management plan (an ASSMP); and
(b) use the ASSMP to create a specific aerial shooting plan; and
(c) provide the relevant sections of the ASSMP and the aerial shooting plan to the following:
           (i) the shooter;
           (ii) the aerial work operator, and the pilot in command of the operation;
           (iii) the person who occupies (or, if not occupied, who exercises control over) the land over which the shooting will occur (the person affected); and
(d) brief the aerial work operator and the pilot in command on the shooting plan; and
(e) obtain, and retain for at least 12 months, the aerial work operator's written agreement that:
           (i) the risks have been assessed under Chapter 13; and
           (ii) the risk criteria under section 13.02 are satisfied; and
(f) ensure that the person affected has no objections to 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