| (1) | An air service operator shall provide a maintenance control manual that meets requirements prescribed in Document SA-CATS 43 for use and guidance of maintenance and operational personnel concerned. |
| (2) | A maintenance control manual referred to in subregulation (1) shall incorporate relevant principles of human factors. |
| (3) | An air service operator shall apply to the Director for approval or amendment of a maintenance control manual by submitting two copies of such maintenance control manual or amendment, as applicable, to the Director who shall retain a copy of each manual or amendment. |
| (4) | An air service operator may, in accordance with the amendment procedures contained in a maintenance control manual amend such manual in order to— |
| (a) | keep information up to date, and |
| (b) | accurately reflect company policy with respect to aeroplane maintenance. |
| (5) | Upon approving an amendment to a maintenance control manual, the Director shall furnish an air service operator with a copy of such amendment with clear instructions to insert the amended pages in a timely manner into a maintenance control manual. |
| (6) | The Director may require an air service operator to amend a maintenance control manual where in the Director’s opinion, a maintenance control manual requires updating. |
| (7) | An air service operator’s maintenance control manual shall have description of— |
| (a) | procedures required in terms of regulation 121.09.4 including a description of the administrative arrangements between an operator and an approved maintenance organisation; |
| (b) | maintenance procedures and the procedures for completing and signing a maintenance release; |
| (c) | names and duties of a person employed to ensure that all maintenance is carried out in accordance with a maintenance control manual; |
| (d) | references to or maintenance programme required in terms of regulation 121.09.2; |
| (e) | methods used for completion and retention of an operator’s maintenance records; |
| (f) | methods used for completion and retention of an operator’s continuing airworthiness records; |
| (g) | procedures for monitoring, assessing, and reporting maintenance and operational experience with respect to continuing airworthiness; |
| (h) | procedures for providing information prescribed by a State of Registry, when operating an aeroplane of over 5 700 kg MTOM; |
| (i) | procedures for complying with service information reporting requirements; |
| (j) | procedures for assessing continuing airworthiness information and implementing any resulting actions after receiving continuing airworthiness information or recommendations from an organisation responsible for a type design; |
| (k) | procedures for implementing resulting actions considered necessary in accordance with a procedure acceptable to a State of Registry; |
| (l) | procedures for implementing action resulting from mandatory continuing airworthiness information; |
| (m) | procedures for establishment and maintenance of a system of analysis and continued monitoring of performance and efficiency of a maintenance programme, in order to correct any deficiency in that programme; |
| (n) | aircraft types and models to which a manual applies; |
| (o) | procedures for ensuring that any unserviceability affecting airworthiness is recorded and rectified; and |
| (p) | procedures for advising a State of Registry of any significant in-service occurrence. |
[Regulation 121.09.5 substituted by regulation 16(l) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]
