The Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations, 2023

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 and shall be read as one (Approved Maintenance with Organisation) Regulations,2017 here in after referred to as the “principal Regulations.” the Civil Aviation Maintenance

2.The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 2 , by- by inserting the words “‘acceptable to the Authority’ between the words “manager” and “who” appearing in the definition of the term “accountable manager”; “aircraft (a) deleting the words component” term appearing “inspection” and substituting for them the words “aeronautical product”; the definition of the in (b) deleting the definitions of the following: parts, appurtenances, “appliances” means Instruments, equipment, apparatus, or accessories, of whatever description, which are used, or are capable of being or intended to be used, in the navigation, operation, or control of aircraft including flight parachutes and including communication equipment and any other mechanism or mechanisms installed in or attached to aircraft during flight, and which are not part or parts of aircraft, aircraft engines, or propellers; in 1 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) “calibration” means a set of operations, performed in accordance with a definite documented procedure that compares the measurement performed by a measurement device or working standard with a recognised bureau of standards for the purpose of detecting and reporting or eliminating adjustment errors in the measurement device, working standard, or aeronautical product tested; “Certificate of Release to Service” means a document which contains a certification confirming that the maintenance work to which it relates has been completed in a satisfactory manner, either in accordance with the approved data and the procedures described in the maintenance organisation’s procedures manual or under an equivalent system; “maintenance” means the performance of tasks on an aircraft, engine, propeller or associated part the continuing to ensure airworthiness of an aircraft engine, propeller including any one or or associated part inspection, combination overhaul, the replacement, defect rectification, and embodiment of a modification or repair; required of in for which a respect of an “major modification” type aeronautical product certificate has been issued, means a change in the type design that has an appreciable effect, or other than a negligible effect, on the mass and balance limits, structural strength, engine operations, flight characteristics, reliability, other operational characteristics, the characteristics or qualities affecting airworthiness or environmental characteristics of an aeronautical product; “major repair” means a repair of an or 2 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) aeronautical product that might appreciably affect the weight, balance, structural strength, performance, power plant, operations, flight characteristics, or other qualities affecting airworthiness or environmental characteristics, or that will be embodied in the product using non-standard practices; “modification” means a change to the type design of an aircraft or aeronautical product in conformity with an approved standard; “powerplant” means the system consisting of all the engines, drive system components where applicable, and propellers when installed, their accessories, ancillary parts, fuel and oil systems installed on an aircraft but excluding the rotors for a helicopter; “State of Design” means the State having jurisdiction over the organization responsible for the type design; “State of Manufacture” means the State having jurisdiction over the organization responsible for the final assembly of the aircraft; “State of Registry”. Means the State on whose register the aircraft is entered; “type certificate” means a document issued by a Contracting State to define the design of an aircraft, engine or propeller type and to certify that the appropriate airworthiness requirements of that State; “type design” means the set of data and information necessary to define an aircraft, engine or propeller type for the purpose of airworthiness determination; this design meets (c) adding in their appropriatical alphabetical order the following definitions: “airworthy” means the status of an aircraft, engine, propeller or part when it conforms to its approved design and is in a condition for safe operation; “airworthiness directive” means a regulatory 3 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) identifies special curricula and aeronautical document which products in which an unsafe condition exists, and where the condition is likely to exist or develop in other aeronautical products of the type design prescribes mandatory same corrective actions to be taken or the conditions or limitations under which the aeronautical products may continue to be operated; “approved” means the Authority has reviewed the method, procedure, or policy in question and issued a formal written approval: “approved training” means training carried out under supervision approved by the Authority; “competency” means a combination of skills, knowledge and attitudes required to perform a task to the prescribed standard; “engine” means a unit used or intended to be used for aircraft propulsion, consisting of at least those components and equipment necessary for functioning and control, but excludes the propeller, where applicable; “line maintenance” means any unscheduled maintenance resulting from unforeseen events, or scheduled checks that contain servicing require and/or specialised training, equipment or facilities; “maintenance procedures manual” means a document endorsed by the maintenance organization which details the maintenance organization’s structure and management responsibilities, scope of work, description facilities, maintenance procedures and quality assurance or inspection systems; “Maintenance Programme” means a document scheduled the which describes maintenance tasks and their frequency of completion and related procedures, such as a reliability programme, necessary for the safe that do not the head of inspections specific of 4 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) operation of those aircraft to which it applies “maintenance records” means records that set out the details of the maintenance carried out on an aircraft, engine, propeller or associated part; “operator” means a person, organization or enterprise, engaged in or offering to engage in an aircraft operation; “prescribed” means the Authority has issued written policy or methodology which imposes either a mandatory requirement, if the written policy or methodology states “shall,” or a discretionary requirement if the written policy or methodology states “may; “propeller” means a device for propelling an aircraft that has blades on an engine driven shaft and that when rotated, produces by its action on the air, a thrust approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation; it includes normally supplied by its manufacturer, and does not include main and auxiliary rotors or rotating airfoils of engine; regulatory “quality control” means inspection process through which actual performance is compared with standards, such as of manufactured aeronautical products, and any difference is acted upon; system” means Documented “quality organisational policies; procedures internal audit of those policies procedures; management review and recommendation for quality improvements; “rebuild” means the restoration of an aircraft or aircraft component by using methods, techniques, and practices acceptable to the Authority, when it has been disassembled, cleaned, inspected as permitted, repaired as necessary, reassembled, and tested to the same the maintenance components standards control and the of 5 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) as the used a means restoration of requirements used the for type certificate for tolerances and limits as a new item, using either new parts or used parts that conform to new part tolerances and limits; “repair” means an aeronautical product to an airworthy condition to ensure that the aircraft continues to comply with the design aspects of the appropriate the airworthiness issuance of the respective aircraft type, after it has been damaged or subjected to wear; “signature” means An individual’s unique identification of authenticating a record entry or record. A signature may be hand-written, electronic, or any other form acceptable to the Authority; “specialised maintenance” means any maintenance not normally performed by an approved maintenance organisation; “standard” means an object, artifact, tool, test equipment, system, or experiment that stores, embodies, or otherwise provides a physical quantity, which serves as the basis for measurement of the quantity and also includes a document describing the operations and process that must be performed in order for a particular end to be achieved; “traceability” means a characteristic of a to a pedigree, a calibration, analogous traceable calibration is achieved when each measurement device and working standard, in a hierarchy stretching back to the National Standard, was itself properly calibrated, and the the documentation provides information needed to show that all calibrations in the chain of calibrations were properly performed; “training program” means a program that consists of courses, courseware, facilities, documented, properly results the 6 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) training equipment, and personnel flight necessary to accomplish a specific training objective. It may include a core curriculum and a specialty curriculum; Amendmen t of regulation 3

3. The principal Regulations are amended by deleting regulation 3 and substituting for it the following: “Applicati on in

3. These Regulations apply to all persons operating or maintaining aircraft registered the United Republic of Tanzania and to the organizations involved in the maintenance of such aircraft, engines, propellers and associated parts wherever they may be”. Amendmen t of regulation 4

4. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 4- (a) in subregulation (4), by deleting “accepted” appearing substituting for it the word “approved”. in the word paragraph and (b) in subregulation (5) by- (i) deleting item (iii) of paragraph (b) and substituting for it the following: “(iii) date of expiration” (ii) deleting item (iv) of paragraph(b) substituting for it the following: “(iv) conditions of approval" (c) in subregulation (6), - (i) by- adding immediately after paragraph (a) the following: “(b) name of the AMO; (c) date of expiration;” (ii) renaming paragraphs (b),(c), (d) as paragraphs (d),(e) and(f) respectively; (iii) deleting paragraph (f) as renamed and substituting for it the following: “(f) ‘authorized signatures of the AMO and the Authority”; Amendmen t of

5. The principal Regulations are amended in 7 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) regulation 6 regulation 6, by- (a) adding immediately after paragraph (d) the following: documentation “(e) the maintenance organisation’s quality system;” and (b) renaming paragraph (e) as paragraph(f). of Amendmen t of regulation 7

6. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 7, by- (a) redesignating the content of that regulation as subregulation(1); and (b) adding immediately after the redesignated subregulation (1) the following: “(2) Where the principal AMO is found to have additional facilities at fixed locations, the Authority may approve without certificating each facility as a stand- alone provided that: AMO that (a) all of the facilities are localised and within a defined area; and (b) all facilities operate under the approval of the principal AMO certificate operations and specifications”. Amendmen t of regulation 8

7. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 8(4) by inserting the words “ more than one hundred and eighty days” between the words “made” and “after” Amendmen t of regulation 10

8. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 10- (a) in subregulation (1), by inserting the word “changes” between the words “intended and “to” appearing in the opening phrase; and (b) in subsection (2) , by adding at the end of paragraph (g) the words “whether granted by the Authority or held through an AMO certification 8 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) issued by another contracting State”. Amendmen t of regulation 11

9. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 11 - (a) in paragraph (d) by- (i) (ii) the between inserting the words “the flight director words system” “navigation” and “except” appearing in item (ii); and inserting between “equipment” appearing in item (ii). the words “measuring” the word “distance” and , by inserting the words (b) in paragraph (e) “electronic display” between appearing in item (iv). the words “transistors” and “or” Amendmen t of regulation 12

10. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 12 by deleting subregulation (2) and substituting for it the following: “(2) The rating issued under sub regulation (1) may be limited be to-a specific model aircraft, engine, or constituent part, or to any number of parts made by a particular manufacturer to- (a) airframes of a particular make and model; (b) engines of a particular make and model; (c) propellers of a particular make and model (d) instruments of a particular make and model; (e) computers of a particular make and model; (f) radio equipment of a particular make and model; (g) accessories of a particular make and model; (h) landing gear components; (i) floats, by make; (j) non-destructive inspection, testing, and processing; 9 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) (k) emergency equipment by make and model; (l) rotor blades by make and model; (m) aircraft fabric work; or (n) any other purpose which the Authority to be the applicant's request finds appropriate”. Amendmen t of regulation 13

16. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 13 - (a) in subregulation (4), by deleting the word‘ in paragraph (a) and “alteration” appearing substituting for it the word ‘modification’; (b) in subregulation (14) (a)- (c) by deleting item (xiii); and (d) renumbering item (xiv) as item (xiii). (e) in subregulation(16)(a) by deleting the word “and” appearing in item (iii); and (f) in subregulation 17, by deleting the word “and” “ immediately after the word appearing recommendations” Amendmen t of regulation 14

17. The principal Regulations are amended in regulations 14 (b) by adding immediately after item (iii) the following: “(iv) maintains and makes available, in a format acceptable by the following information: (a) the maintenance functions contracted to the Authority, each outside facility ; and (b) the name of each outside facility to whom the AMO contracts maintenance functions and the type of certificate and ratings, if any, held by each sub-contractor”. Amendmen t of regulation1 5 Amandmen t of

18. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 15 by deleting the figure “2015” and substituting for it the figure “2018”.

19. The principal Regulations are amended in 10 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) regulation 16 regulation 16 by inserting the words “technical data” between the words “equipment” and “and”. Amendmen t of regulation 17

20. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 17, by- (a) adding immediately after subregulation (6) the following: “(7) An AMO with an airframe rating shall provide suitable permanent housing to enclose the largest type and model of aircraft listed on its operations specifications. (8) An AMO may perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alterations on articles outside of its housing if it provides suitable facilities that are acceptable to the Authority.” (b) renumbering subregulations (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13).(14), (15), (16) and (17) as subregulations (11),(12),(13), (14),(15).(16).(17),(18) and (19) respectively. (10), (9), Amendmen t of regulation 18 Amendmen t of regulation 20

21. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation18, by (a) in subregulation (2), inserting the words “by prior arrangement, and under full control of the AMO” between words “temporarily” and “for” (b) in subregulation (4)(a) by deleting the word “and” appearing at the end of item (ii).

22. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 20- (a) in subregulation (2), by (i) inserting the words “acceptable to the Authority” between words “personnel” and “with’; and (ii) adding immediately after paragraph (d) the following: “(e) ‘safety manager’ 11 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) (b) by adding immediately after subregulation (5) the following: of the “(6) Where an AMO chooses to appoint managers for all or any identified combination functions because of the size of the undertaking, these managers shall report ultimately through either the base maintenance manager, line maintenance manager, workshop manager, quality manager or safety the as appropriate, manager accountable manager.” to Amendmen t of regulation 21 (c) by renumbering subregulation (6) as subregulation(7).

23. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 21- (a) in subregulation (3), by adding immediately after paragraph (a) the following: “(b) be responsible for taking any from action corrective quality compliance monitoring;” (b) renumbering paragraph (b) as paragraph (c). (c) in subregulation (5), by- (i) inserting resulting recommendations the words with is performed the in component accordance manufacturer’s and maintenance procedures approved by the Authority” at the end of paragraph (a); (ii) deleting the words “is performed to required standards” appearing at the end of paragraph (b); and (iii) inserting the word “have” between the word “ shall” and “attended”. Amendmen t of regulation 22

24. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 22 by inserting the words “acceptable to the Authority” between the words “plan and showing” appearing in subregulation (1). 12 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) Amendmen t of regulation 23

25. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 23- (a) in subregulation (1).,by the word “auditor” between the word “ supervisor” and “and”; inserting (b) in subregulation (2), by- (i) deleting the opening phrase and substituting for it the following: “The assessment in sub regulation (1), shall be based on the job description for each post and appropriately documented in employee training records to establish that: (ii) by adding immediately after paragraph (c) the following: “(d) auditors are able to perform quality audit functions in order to monitor compliance with the operational and maintenance procedures, designed to ensure safe operations, airworthy aircraft, and the serviceability of both operational and safety equipment;” (iii) renumbering paragraph (d) as paragraph € (c) in subregulation (3), by inserting the word “auditor” between the words “ supervisor” and “and”;

26. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 24- Amendmen t of regulation 24 (a) by adding the words “and acceptable to the Authority” at the end of subregulation (1); (b) in subsection (3), by deleting the word “live” appearing in paragraph (b) and substituting for it the word “human” (c) by deleting subregulation (6) and substituting for it the following: “(6) All certifying staff of the AMO shall receive continuation training in each two-year period to ensure that such staff have up-to- 13 Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organisation) (Amendment) Regulations GN. NO. 372 (Contd) relevant technology, date knowledge of change in standard of aircraft or aircraft component maintenance, organizational procedure and human factors.” (d) by adding immediately after subregulation (6) the following: “(7) A Certifying staff employed in an AMO shall not undertake the same responsibilities in another AMO unless approved by the Authority.

27. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 27- (a) in subregulation (1), by deleting the words “operation specifications” appearing in paragraph (f) and substituting for it the word “specific operating provisions” (b) in subregulation (2), by adding at the end of paragraph (u)the words “and description of the contracted activities”. (c) in subregulation (8), by deleting the word “inspection” appearing in paragraph (c) and substituting for it the word “inspector”.

28. The principal Regulations are amended in regulation 31, by- (a) redesignating the content of that regulation as subregulation (1); (b) adding immediately after the redesignated subregulation (1) the following: “(2)An AMO shall not contract out the maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alteration of a complete type-certificated product.” Amendmen t of regulation 27 Amendmen t of regulation 31 Dodoma, MAKAME M. MBARAWA, 11th May, 2023 Minister for Works and Transport 14