Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01749:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01749
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 2601–5505

being holding the position of National Manager, Airworthiness & Engineering, CASA (the National Manager).
SAR operation is short for search and rescue operation and has the meaning given by section 1.07 of the Part 138 MOS.
working load limit, for relevant equipment, means the maximum load, as applicable, that the manufacturer recommends must not be exceeded.
       (2) In this instrument, unless the contrary intention appears, other words and phrases have the same meaning as in the Part 133 MOS or the Part 138 MOS, as applicable to the relevant operation.
       (3) All documents mentioned in, or applied, adopted or incorporated in, this instrument are such documents as are in force from time to time, as applicable.

4 Application
        This instrument applies, according to its terms, to the use by a relevant operator, or the relevant operator's pilot in command, of relevant equipment, by a relevant helicopter in a relevant operation.

5 Exemption – CASR Part 133 – medical transport operations
       (1) The relevant operator and the relevant pilot in command of a relevant operation are each exempted from compliance with the following provisions of CASR that would otherwise apply to each of them:
(a) regulation 133.295;
(b) subregulation 133.360(2);
        BUT only to the extent of the requirement under section 5.06 of the Part 133 MOS that, for the use of relevant equipment in a medical transport operation, the equipment must meet the requirements of, or be approved under, Part 21 of CASR.
Note   In subsection (1):
(a) regulation 133.295 of CASR concerns compliance with requirements under the Part 133 MOS relating to external load operations involving winching a person; and
(b) subregulation 133.360(2) of CASR concerns compliance with requirements under the Part 133 MOS relating to equipment; and
(c) section 5.06 of the Part 133 MOS concerns compliance with, or approval under, Part 21 of CASR for external load equipment, fittings, lines, safety harnesses, restraint straps and rescue harnesses; and
(d) Part 21 of CASR relevantly concerns certification and airworthiness requirements for parts.
       (2) The exemption is subject to the conditions mentioned in section 7.
Note   The specific exemptions mentioned in this section (in effect from certain Part 21 of CASR compliance requirements) do not exempt from any other provisions in CASR, including other requirements to wear a seatbelt, harness or restraint.

6 Exemption – CASR Part 138 – SAR operations
       (1) The relevant operator and the pilot in command of a relevant operation are each exempted from compliance with the following provisions of CASR that would otherwise apply to each of them:
(a) regulation 138.375;
(b) subregulations 138.410(4), (5) and (6);
(c) subregulations 138.465(3) and (4);
        BUT only to the extent of the requirements under subsection 14.02(3), paragraph 14.03(3)(b)