Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 39.001A

                In these Regulations:

airworthiness directive means:

                (a)    an Australian airworthiness directive; or

               (b)    a foreign State of Design airworthiness directive issued on or after 1 October 2009; or

                (c)    for a model of aircraft that is first registered in Australia on or after 1 October 2009 -- a foreign State of Design airworthiness directive issued before 1 October 2009 f or that model or for an aeronautical product that is part of, or used in, that model.

Australian airworthiness directive means a document, as in force from time to time, issued by CASA under subregulation 39.001 (1).

foreign State of Design airworthiness directive , for a kind of aircraft or aeronautical product for which Australia is not the State of Design, means a document, as in force from time to time, that:

                (a)    is issued by the NAA of the State of Design of the aircraft or aeronautical product; and

               (b)    is of the same nature as an Australian airworthiness directive.