Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 9

Certificate of maintenance review

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) An aircraft registered in Hong Kong in respect of which a certificate of
airworthiness in either the transport or in the aerial work category is in
force shall not fly unless:

   (a)  the aircraft (including in particular its engines), together with its
        equipment and radio station, is maintained in accordance with a
        maintenance schedule approved by the Governor in relation to that
        aircraft; and

   (b)  there is in force a certificate (in this Order referred to as a

"certificate of maintenance review") issued in respect of the aircraft in
accordance with the provisions of this Article and such certificate shall
certify the date on which the maintenance review was carried out and the date
thereafter when the next review is due.

(2) The approved maintenance schedule referred to in paragraph (1) of this
Article shall specify the occasions on which a review must be carried out for
the purposes of issuing a certificate of maintenance  review.

(3) A certificate of maintenance review may be issued for the purposes of this
Article only by:

   (a)  the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer's licence:

        (i)    granted under this Order being a licence which entitles him to
               issue that certificate;

        (ii)   granted under the law of a country other than Hong Kong and
               rendered valid under this Order in accordance with the
               privileges endorsed on the licence; or

        (iii)  granted under the law of any country specified in Regulation 13
               in Schedule 15 to this Order in accordance with the privileges
               endorsed on the licence and subject to any conditions which may
               be prescribed;

   (b)  a person whom the Governor has authorized to issue a
        certificate of maintenance review in a particular case, and in
        accordance with that authority; or

   (c)  a person approved by the Governor as being competent to issue such
        certificates, and in accordance with that approval: Provided that, in
        approving a maintenance schedule, the Governor may direct that
        certificates of maintenance review relating to that schedule, or to
        any part thereof specified in its direction, may be issued only by the
        holder of such a licence as is so specified.

(4) A person referred to in paragraph (3) of this Article shall not issue a
certificate of maintenance review unless he has first verified that:

   (a)  maintenance has been carried out on the aircraft in accordance with
        the maintenance schedule approved for that aircraft;

   (b)  inspections and modifications required by the Governor as provided in
        Article 8 of this Order have been completed as certified in the
        relevant certificate of release to service issued in accordance with
        Article 11 of this Order;

   (c)  defects entered in the technical log of the aircraft in accordance
        with Article 10 of this Order have been rectified or the rectification
        thereof has been deferred in accordance with procedures approved by
        the Governor; and

   (d)  certificates of release to service have been issued in accordance with
        Article 11 of this Order; and for this purpose the operator of the
        aircraft shall make available to that person such information as is
        necessary.

(5) A certificate of maintenance review shall be issued in duplicate. One copy
of the most recently issued certificate shall be carried in the aircraft when
Article 57 of this Order so requires, and the other shall be kept by the
operator elsewhere than in the aircraft.

(6) Subject to the provisions of Article 61 of this Order, each
certificate of maintenance review shall be preserved by the operator of the
aircraft for a period of two years after it has been issued.

(7) For the purpose of this Article a "person" may include a body corporate.

"person"