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This Subpart prescribes rules governing the approval or acceptance of a material, part, process, and appliance.
A replacement or modification material, part, or appliance to be installed into a type certificated product must—
(1) be authorised by the holder of the type certificate for the product as complying with the type design; or
(2) be manufactured by a person performing maintenance on the product and the replacement or modification material, part, or appliance must be —
(i) certified by the person to conform to an approved type design including any embodied design change; and
(ii) identified in accordance with Subpart Q, or
(3) be issued with a CAA Form One – authorised release certificate issued by the holder of a maintenance organisation certificate issued in accordance with Part 145 who established the conformity and traceability of, and performed maintenance on, the part or appliance; or
(4) be issued with a CAA Form One – authorised release certificate issued by the holder of a manufacturing organisation certificate issued in accordance with Part 148 who manufactured the part or appliance in accordance with a—
(i) NZTSO authorisation; or
(ii) NZPMA authorisation; or
(iii) supplemental type certificate issued under Subpart E; or
(iv) certificate of type approval issued under regulation 163 of the Civil Aviation Regulations 1953; or
(5) be issued with a release note, by the holder of a supply organisation certificate issued in accordance with Part 19, who established the conformity of the material, part, or appliance; or
(6) be a standard part; or
(7) be an imported part accepted for the purpose by the Director.
If a process is required to meet the airworthiness requirements for the issue of a type certificate or of any CAR, then it must be—
(1) included in the exposition of the holder of a maintenance organisation certificate issued under Part 145; or
(2) included in the exposition of the holder of a manufacturing organisation certificate issued under Part 148; or
(3) otherwise acceptable to the Director.
