The holder of a manufacturing organisation approval shall:
| (a) |
ensure that the manufacturing organisation's manual of procedure, furnished in accordance with regulation 148.02.5 and the documents to which it refers, are used as the basic working documents within the organisation; |
| (b) |
maintain the manufacturing organisation in conformity with the data and procedures approved for the manufacturing organisation approval; |
| (i) |
each completed aircraft conforms to the type design and is in condition for safe operation prior to submitting statements of conformity to the Director; or |
| (ii) |
other products, parts or appliances are complete and conform to the approved design data and are in condition for safe operation for the issuing of authorised release certificates to certify airworthiness or conformity, as applicable; |
| (d) |
record all details of work carried out in a form acceptable to the Director; |
| (e) |
report to the holder of the type certificate or design approval all cases where products, parts or appliances have been released by the manufacturing organisation and subsequently identified to have deviations from the applicable design data, and investigate with the holder of the type certificate or design approval to identify those deviations that may lead to an unsafe condition; |
| (f) |
provide assistance to the holder of the type certificate or design approval in dealing with any continuing airworthiness actions that are related to the products, parts or appliances that have been produced; |
| (g) |
institute an archiving system incorporating requirements to its partners, suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring conservation of the data used to justify conformity of the products, parts or appliances, to be held at the disposal of the Director and be retained in order to provide the information necessary to ensure the continuing airworthiness of the products, parts or appliances; and |
| (h) |
where under the terms of approval, a certificate of release to service is to be issued, determine that each completed aircraft has been subjected to necessary maintenance and is in a condition for safe operation, prior to the issuing of the certificate. |
Administration of Estates Act, 1965
