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(a) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must employ, contract, or otherwise engage—
(1) a senior person identified as the chief executive who has the authority within the applicant’s organisation to ensure that all activities undertaken by the organisation can be financed and carried out in accordance with the requirements and standards prescribed by this Part; and
(2) a senior person or persons who is or are responsible for ensuring that the organisation complies with the requirements of this Part. The nominated person or persons must be ultimately responsible to the chief executive for the following functions:
(i) the control and direction of maintenance activities:
(ii) personnel authorisations:
(iii) the system for safety management required under rule 145.65; and
(3) sufficient personnel to plan, perform, supervise, inspect, and certify the maintenance activities listed in the exposition.
(aa) The senior person required by paragraph (a)(2)(iii) must be able to demonstrate competency and experience relevant to the management of safety systems and the activities of the certificate holder.
(b) The applicant must—
(1) establish a procedure for initially assessing and maintaining, the competency of those personnel involved in planning, performing, supervising, inspecting, or certifying the maintenance activities performed by the organisation; and
(2) provide those personnel with written evidence of the scope of their authorisation.
An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures to ensure that a person who is authorised under rule 145.60 to perform or supervise maintenance, or to certify release-to-service, or to certify conformity to acceptable data is relieved from duty for—
(1) a period of at least 8 consecutive hours in the 24-hour period immediately before exercising the authorisation; and
(2) at least 4 periods of at least 24 consecutive hours each in the 30- day period immediately before exercising the authorisation.
(a) Each applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must provide facilities appropriate for all maintenance activities performed by the applicant’s organisation.
(b) The applicant must provide—
(1) office accommodation for the administration of its maintenance activities; and
(2) maintenance facilities that include—
(i) protection from the weather; and
(ii) appropriate segregation of specialised work areas to prevent environmental and work area contamination; and
(3) storage facilities for equipment, tools, parts, and material that include—
(i) security for serviceable items; and
(ii) segregation of serviceable from unserviceable items; and
(iii) controls to prevent deterioration of, and damage to, stored items.
(c) The applicant must ensure that the environment it provides is appropriate for the tasks to be performed and, in particular, meets any special requirements specified in the applicable airworthiness data.
Each applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must—
(1) have access to the equipment, tools, and material necessary for all maintenance activities performed by the applicant’s organisation; and
(2) establish a procedure to control the equipment, tools, and material including, at a frequency and to a standard acceptable to the Director, the calibration of precision tooling and equipment.
(a) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must hold copies of maintenance procedures manuals, facility manuals, engineering drawings, specifications, technical standards and practices, and any other documentation that is necessary for the provision of the maintenance activities detailed in the applicant’s exposition.
(b) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures for—
(1) the inspection of raw materials, parts, and assemblies purchased or maintained by subsidiary maintenance organisations, including methods to ensure the acceptable quality of parts and assemblies that cannot be completely inspected on delivery to the organisation; and
(2) dealing with materials, parts, and assemblies that do not conform to the type design or specifications, including the recording of decisions and the disposal of rejected materials, parts, and assemblies; and
(3) the performance of the maintenance activities detailed in the applicant’s exposition, including methods to ensure—
(i) the use of acceptable maintenance techniques and practices; and
(ii) the compliance with contractual maintenance obligations with aircraft operators; and
(iii) maintenance at locations other than those specified in the applicant’s exposition is limited to scheduled maintenance specifically identified in the applicant’s exposition or maintenance arising solely from unserviceability of the aircraft; and
(4) ensuring that each maintenance activity to be performed on behalf of the applicant’s organisation by a subcontractor—
(i) is identified in the applicant’s exposition; and
(ii) complies with the systems, procedures, and specifications detailed in the applicant’s exposition; and
(5) the identification, handling, storage, and packing of materials, parts, and assemblies; and
(6) a person authorised in accordance with rule 145.60 to certify an aircraft or component for release-to-service, and the maintenance of a list of the persons who hold such authorisations to certify a release-to-service; and
(7) a person authorised in accordance with rule 145.60 to issue a CAA Form One – authorised release certificate, and the maintenance of a list of the persons who hold such authorisations to issue a CAA Form One – authorised release certificate; and
(8) controlling the documentation required by paragraph (a) to ensure that—
(i) the documentation is reviewed and authorised by appropriate personnel before issue; and
(ii) current issues of relevant documentation are available to personnel at every location where they need access to such documentation to perform the maintenance activities detailed in the applicant's exposition; and
(iii) obsolete documentation is promptly removed from every point of issue or use; and
(iv) changes to documentation are reviewed and authorised by appropriate personnel; and
(v) the current version of each item of documentation can be identified to ensure that out-of-date documentation is not used; and
(9) maintenance information, engineering drawings, technical standards and practices, and inspection records are made available to the Director on the Director’s request.
(a) Subject to paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g), an applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures for authorising a person to perform the following types of maintenance activities under the authority of the maintenance organisation certificate:
(1) perform and supervise maintenance on an aircraft or a component as specified in the authorisation:
(2) certify an aircraft or a component as specified in the authorisation for release-to-service after maintenance has been performed:
(3) certify the conformity of a major modification and a major repair to an aircraft and a component to acceptable technical data.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (c), a person must not be authorised to certify an aircraft or a component for release-to-service after maintenance unless the person—
(1) holds a current aircraft maintenance engineer licence with an appropriate rating, issued in accordance with Part 66; or
(2) holds a current aircraft maintenance engineer licence in an appropriate category issued in accordance with Part 66 and meets a standard at least equal to that required by Subpart C of Part 66 for the grant of an aircraft maintenance engineer rating; or
(3) holds an appropriate current aircraft maintenance engineer licence with an appropriate rating issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia, and has had that licence registered by the Director in New Zealand under the Trans Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997; or
(4) holds a current certificate of maintenance approval, with appropriate endorsement, issued in accordance with Part 66; or
(5) for maintenance performed outside of New Zealand—
(i) holds an appropriate current maintenance engineer document that is issued under the authority of an ICAO Contracting State, acceptable to the Director, for the type of aircraft or component for which the authorisation is intended; or
(ii) holds an equivalent authorisation that is issued by an organisation that is certificated to perform maintenance by an ICAO Contracting State, acceptable to the Director, for the type of aircraft or component for which the authorisation is intended; or
(6) for a limited authorisation to certify an aircraft for release-to-service following limited maintenance activities as specified in the procedure, holds a current and appropriate aircraft maintenance engineer licence issued under the Act and in accordance with Part 66 and has training and experience acceptable to the Director appropriate to the limitations in the authorisation; or
(7) for maintenance specified in Appendix A.1 of Part 43, meets the requirement of rule 43.51(b) and is appropriately trained to perform the maintenance and certify the release-to-service for the aircraft type for which the authorisation is intended.
(c) A person may be authorised to certify a component for release-to-service after maintenance if the person has—
(1) successfully completed a course of training relevant to the component for which the authorisation is intended, or passed an examination acceptable to the Director relevant to the component for which the authorisation is intended; and
(2) 36 months of practical aviation related experience with the procedures, practices, materials, tools, machine tools, and equipment generally used in constructing, maintaining, or modifying airframes, powerplants, or avionic equipment; and
(3) 6 months of supervised experience directly relevant to the component for which authorisation is sought.
(d) The course of training specified in paragraph (c)(1) must be—
(1) conducted by the holder of a maintenance organisation certificate issued under the Act and in accordance with Part 145 with an E1 rating for the training of the organisation’s staff; or
(2) conducted by the holder of a training organisation certificate granted under section 75 of the Act and in accordance with Part 141 or Part 147 if the training organisation certificate authorises such a course; or
(3) conducted by the manufacturer of the applicable component; or
(4) approved by the aviation authority of an ICAO Contracting State acceptable to the Director.
(e) A person must not be authorised to—
(1) certify an aircraft or component for release-to-service after maintenance unless the person—
(i) has been examined by an appropriate senior person for familiarity with the maintenance control procedures required by rule 145.59(b); and
(ii) has been examined by an appropriate senior person for technical competence in respect of the authorisation to be held; and
(iii) if the authorisation includes an aeroplane that is identified in an air operator maintenance programme as being authorised for EDTO, has completed a training course that is applicable to the requirements of rule 121.407; or
(2) certify the conformity of major modifications and major repairs to aircraft and components to acceptable technical data unless the person—
(i) is the holder of an authorisation to certify the aircraft or component for release-to-service; and
(ii) has completed a course of training relevant to modification and repair conformity; and
(iii) has passed an examination acceptable to the Director relevant to modification and repair conformity.
(f) A person holding an authorisation issued in accordance with the procedures required by paragraph (a) must not exercise the privileges of the authorisation unless the person—
(1) satisfies the applicable recent experience requirements prescribed in rules 66.57 and 66.207 irrespective of whether the person holds an aircraft maintenance engineer licence issued under the Act and in accordance with Part 66; and
(2) if the authorisation includes an aeroplane that is identified in an air operator maintenance programme as being authorised for EDTO, has completed, within the previous 24 months, a refresher training course that is applicable to the requirements of rule 121.407.
(g) An authorisation issued under paragraph (a) to a person who meets the requirements of paragraphs (b) or (c) may not confer greater privileges than those conferred by an equivalent rating issued under Subpart C of Part 66, or an equivalent certificate of maintenance approval issued in accordance with Subpart D of Part 66.
(h) For the purpose of paragraphs (e)(1)(iii) and (f)(2), the reference to EDTO is also deemed to be a reference to ETOPS if the maintenance programme was approved before 1 November 2010.
(a) Each applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures for—
(1) collecting, investigating, and analysing information relating to defects in the aircraft or component maintained by the applicant and distributing that information to—
(i) the applicable design organisation; and
(ii) the owner or operator of that aircraft or component; and
(2) providing defect incident information to the Authority in accordance with Part 12.
(b) Each applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures to inform each owner of an aircraft or component that it maintains of the details of the procedures required in paragraph (a).
(a) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures to identify, collect, index, store, and maintain accurate records that are necessary to ensure that each product or component is fit for release-to-service.
(b) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish procedures to—
(1) record details of the experience, qualifications, training, and current authorisations of each person who exercises certification privileges under the authority of the maintenance organisation certificate; and
(2) record every aircraft and component that is maintained by the holder including a description of the work performed; and
(3) record every calibration of equipment and tools that is required under rule 145.55(2) and the standards used for the calibration; and
(4) ensure that—
(i) every record is legible and of a permanent nature; and
(ii) every record for an aircraft is available to the operator of the aircraft; and
(iii) the records required by paragraph (b) are retained for a period of at least 5 years; and
(iv) the records required by paragraph (b) are made available to the Director on the Director’s request.
An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must establish, implement, and maintain a system for safety management in accordance with rule 100.3.
(a) An applicant for the grant of a maintenance organisation certificate must provide the Director with an exposition that contains—
(1) a statement signed by the applicant’s chief executive on behalf of the applicant confirming that the exposition and any included manuals—
(i) define the maintenance organisation and demonstrate its means and methods for ensuring ongoing compliance with this Part; and
(ii) are to be complied with by its personnel; and
(1A) the documentation required by rule 100.3(b) to establish and maintain the system for safety management; and
(1B) if a DAMP is required (see rule 99.5 and section 114 of the Act) a DAMP meeting the requirements of Part 99 and of the Act; and
(2) the titles and names of the senior person or persons required by rules 145.51(a)(1) and (2); and
(3) the duties and responsibilities of the senior person or persons required by rules 145.51(a)(1) and (2) including—
(i) matters for which they have responsibility to deal directly with the Director or the Authority on behalf of the organisation; and
(ii) responsibilities for safety management; and
(4) an organisation chart showing lines of responsibility of the senior person or persons required by rules 145.51(a)(1) and (2); and
(5) except as provided in paragraph (b), details of every location where the applicant performs maintenance and details of the facilities at those locations; and
(6) details of the applicant's staffing structure at each of the locations listed under paragraph (a)(5); and
(6A) information identifying the lines of safety responsibility within the organisation and
(7) a detailed description of the scope of work undertaken by the applicant; and
(8) details of the applicant's procedures required by—
(i) rule 145.51(b) regarding the assessment of competency of personnel; and
(ii) rule 145.51(b) regarding on-going training to maintain the competency of personnel; and
(iii) rule 145.52 regarding maintenance personnel duty time limitations; and
(iv) rule 145.55(2) regarding the control and calibration of tools, jigs, maintenance equipment, and test equipment; and
(v) rule 145.59(b)(1) regarding inspections of raw materials, parts, and assemblies; and
(vi) rule 145.59(b)(2) regarding non-conforming materials and parts; and
(vii) rule 145.59(b)(3) regarding the performance of maintenance activities; and
(viii) rule 145.59(b)(4) regarding the subcontracting of maintenance activities; and
(ix) rule 145.59(b)(5) regarding the identification, handling, storage, and packing of materials, parts, and assemblies; and
(x) rule 145.59(b)(6) regarding the certification of aircraft and components for release-to-service; and
(xi) rule 145.59(b)(7) regarding the issue of CAA Form One – authorised release certificates; and
(xii) rule 145.59(b)(8) regarding the control and distribution of documentation; and
(xiii) rule 145.60 regarding the issue of authorisations to appropriate persons; and
(xiv) rule 145.61 regarding the collection and provision of information for the continued airworthiness of the aircraft and components that the applicant maintains; and
(xv) rule 145.63(a) regarding the identification, collection, indexing, storage, and maintenance of records; and
(xvi) rule 145.63(b) regarding the recording of personnel experience, competency, qualifications and training; and
(9) details of the facilities required by rule 145.53(b)(3) for the storage and segregation of parts; and
(10) details of the means to provide appropriate environmental conditions required by rule 145.53(c); and
(11) Reserved
(12) procedures to control, amend and distribute the exposition; and
(13) procedures at least equivalent to those required by rule 147.57 and rule 147.59; and
(14) procedures for changing the scope within a rating.
(15) if a rating for issuing release notes is sought under rules 145.11(13) to (15), meet or exceed the exposition requirements in rule 19.325.
(a) The applicant’s exposition need not contain details of those locations where the applicant conducts maintenance in accordance with procedures required by rule 145.59(b)(3)(iii).
(b) The applicant’s exposition must be acceptable to the Director.
If the applicant proposes to exercise privileges of a S1, S2 or S3 rating referred to in rules 145.11(a)(13), (14), and (15), the applicant must:
(1) appoint a senior person or group of senior persons to be responsible for the functions specified in rules 19.317(a)(2)(i) to (iii):
(2) provide facilities appropriate for all supply activities in accordance with rule 19.319:
(3) establish supply control procedures at least equivalent to those in rule 19.321:
(4) establish procedures for records at least equivalent to those in rule 19.323.
