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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Medical certification

27G: General directions and emergency directives

You could also call this:

"Rules for flying: Medical checks and quick safety decisions"

The Director can make general rules about medical exams for people who want to fly planes. These rules can be about how to do the exams, how to report the results, and when someone doesn't need to report a short-term medical problem. The Director can also set rules about what the exams should include and how to understand the results.

Before making these rules, the Director needs to talk to experts and other important people. Once the rules are made, they need to be written down and sent to the doctors who do the exams. They also need to be put in a special medical book.

If there's an emergency, the Director can make rules quickly without talking to anyone first. These emergency rules start right away and last for 90 days. After that, the Director can make them into regular rules if needed.

All these rules, both the regular ones and the emergency ones, are called "secondary legislation". This means they're like laws, but they're made by the Director instead of by Parliament. Emergency rules can start even before everyone knows about them.

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Part 2AMedical certification

27GGeneral directions and emergency directives

  1. The Director may issue general directions in relation to—

  2. conducting examinations of applicants and licence holders, and reporting the results of those examinations to the Director; and
    1. providing exceptions for temporary medical conditions to the reporting requirements set out in section 27C; and
      1. specifying the requirements of examinations or other clinical matters, which must be reasonable, including, but not limited to,—
        1. the medical content of examinations:
          1. the interpretation and analysis of results of examinations:
            1. the significance of results of examinations for the purpose of determining whether or not an applicant is eligible for a medical certificate under section 27B.

            2. Before issuing general directions under subsection (1), the Director must consult with those persons, health professionals with aviation medical experience, representative groups within the aviation industry or elsewhere, government departments, and Crown agencies that he or she considers appropriate.

            3. General directions issued in relation to the matters specified in subsection (1)(a) or (c) must be—

            4. notified in writing to aviation examiners or medical examiners; and
              1. incorporated in a medical manual issued by the Director.

                1. The Director may issue directives in emergency situations without prior consultation.

                2. An emergency directive under subsection (4)—

                3. takes effect when it is issued, or at any later time specified in it; and
                  1. expires on the day that is 90 days after the date on which it is issued.

                    1. The Director may reissue, as a general direction under subsection (1), directives issued under subsection (4) before or after they expire.

                    2. The following are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements):

                    3. general directions under subsection (1):
                      1. emergency directives under subsection (4).

                        1. An emergency directive under subsection (4) commences in accordance with subsection (4A)(a), even if it is not yet published.

                        Notes
                        • Section 27G: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Civil Aviation (Medical Certification) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 87).
                        • Section 27G(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 27G(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 27G(4A): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 27G(5): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 27G(6): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
                        • Section 27G(7): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).