Certification of maintenance

(1) An air craft registered in the Colony shall not fly for the purpose of public transport or dropping or projecting any material for agricultural, public health or similar purposes unless– (a) the aircraft (including in particular its engines), together with its equipment and radio station, is maintained in accordance with maintenance schedules approved by the Governor in relation to aircraft; (b) there are in force in respect of that aircraft certificates (in this Order referred to as “certificates of maintenance”) issued in accordance with the provisions of this Article and certifying that maintenance has been out in accordance with such maintenance schedules, provided that an aircraft may, notwithstanding that sub-paragraph (a) and (b) have not been complied with in relation to the radio station therein fly for the sole purpose of enabling persons to be trained to perform duties in (2) Every certificate of maintenance shall come into force upon being issued and shall cease to be in force upon the expiration of the period of its validity in elapsed time or flying time, whichever may be the earlier, as specified in the relevant maintenance schedule, and the period of validity of the certificate shall be recorded in the certificate at the time when it is issued. (3) A certificate of maintenance may be issued for the purposes of this Article only byCivil Aviation 327 (a) the holder of a licence granted under this Order as an aircraft maintenance engineer or aircraft radio maintenance engineer being a of a category appropriate in accordance with Article 8 of the Fourth Schedule to this Order; or Fourth Schedule. (b) the holder of a licence as such an engineer granted under the law of a country other than the Colony and rendered valid under this Order, in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence; or (c) a person whom the Governor has authorized to issue a certificate of maintenance in a particular case, and in accordance with that provided that, upon approving a maintenance schedule, the Governor may direct that certificates of maintenance relating to that schedule, or to any part thereof specified in his direction, may be issued only by the holder of such a licence as is so specified. (4) Certificates of maintenance shall be issued in duplicate. One of the duplicates shall, during the period of validity of the certificate, be carried in the aircraft when Article 51 of this Order so requires, and the other shall be kept by the operator elsewhere that in the aircraft. (5) On the termination of every flight the commander of the aircraft shall enter in a technical log particulars of– (a) the times at which that flight began and ended; (b) any defect in any part of the aircraft or its equipment which may be known to him, being a part to which a maintenance schedule 328 Civil Aviation relates, and if no such defect is known to him he shall make an entry to that effect, provided that, in the case of a number of consecutive flights beginning and ending on the same day and at the same aerodrome and with the same person as commander of the aircraft, the commander of the aircraft may enter the particulars as aforesaid in a technical log at the end of the last of such (6) Upon the rectification of any defect which has been entered in a technical log in accordance with paragraph (5) of this Article, a copy of the certificate of compliance required by Article 7 of this Order in respect of the work done for the rectification of the defect shall be entered in the technical log in such a position or manner as to be readily identifiable with the entry of the defect to which it relates. (7) The technical log referred to in paragraphs (5) and (6) of this Article shall be carried in the aircraft when Article 51 of this Order so requires and copies of the entries referred to in those paragraphs shall be kept on the ground. (8) Subject to the provisions of Article 53 of this Order every certificate of maintenance shall be preserved by the operator of the aircraft for a period of two years following the expiry of the period of validity of the certificate and for such further period as the Governor may require in any particular case.