Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

Regulations

Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 43 : General Maintenance Rules

Subpart 4 : Release to Service

43.04.6 Discrepancies

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Any person who carries out an inspection and who does not release the aircraft or aircraft component to service shall—

(a)provide the owner or operator with a signed and dated list of the discrepancies, including any equipment which is marked "inoperative" in terms of paragraph (b) if such person is satisfied that the aircraft—
(i)is not airworthy; or
(ii)does not comply with the applicable type certificate data, airworthiness directives or other approved data upon which the airworthiness of such aircraft depends;
(b)for those items, which appear to be inoperative, place a label on each inoperative instrument and the cockpit controls of each item of inoperative equipment, marking each item "inoperative" e.g. INOP;
(c)enter the date of entry, his or her signature, licence or authorisation number and the appropriate statement, as prescribed in Document SA-CATS 43, in the appropriate logbook or flight folio.