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This Part prescribes rules concerning−
(1) the issue and holding of medical certificates required by flight crew and air traffic controllers; and
(2) the medical standards for a medical certificate; and
(3) the certification and operating requirements of medical examiners; and
(4) the requirements for determining suitably qualified medical examiners under schedule 2, clause 27 of the Act.
(a) In this Part:
A medical condition is of aeromedical significance if, having regard to any relevant general direction, it interferes or is likely to interfere with the safe exercise of the privileges or the safe performance of the duties to which the relevant medical certificate relates.
Aviation Medical Transitional Criteria Notice 2002 means the notice issued by the Minister under section 27Q of the Civil Aviation Act 1990, as amended by the Aviation Medical Transitional Criteria Amendment Notice 2006.
Cardiac pacemaker includes an automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator.
Licence holder means a person who−
(1) holds an aviation document or is a pilot; and
(2) holds, or is required under the rules to hold, a medical certificate.
Medical assessment report means the report of the Director under rule 67.59.
Medical condition includes:
(1) any of the following (no matter how minor):
(i) any illness or injury;
(ii) any bodily infirmity, defect or incapacity;
(iii) any mental infirmity, defect or incapacity;
(iv) any sequela of an illness, injury, infirmity, defect or incapacity mentioned in (i), (ii) or (iii); and
(2) any abnormal psychological state or behavioural or cognitive disorder; and
(3) drug addiction and drug dependence; and
(4) pregnancy and the physiological and psychological consequences of pregnancy or of termination of pregnancy.
Medical manual means the medical manual issued by the Director and includes any incorporated general direction issued by the Director under schedule, clause 25(1) of the Act.
Psychoactive substances means alcohol, opioids, cannabinoids, sedatives and hypnotics, cocaine, other psychostimulants, hallucinogens, and volatile solvents, but excludes coffee and tobacco.
(b) To avoid doubt, a medical condition that causes or is likely to cause incapacitation, sudden or otherwise, is a medical condition of aeromedical significance.
(a) The Director may not grant an exemption from a requirement in Subpart C.
(b) To avoid doubt, paragraph (a) does not affect the power of the Director to rely on flexibility to issue a medical certificate to an applicant under schedule 2, clause 5(3) of the Act.
