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

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 21 : Certification Procedures for Products and Parts

Subpart 13 : Identification of Products, Parts and Appliances

21.13.8 Identification of replacement and modification parts, appliances and critical parts

 

(1) Except as provided in subregulation (4), any organisation which manufactures a replacement or modification part or appliance under an authorisation required by subpart 9 and subpart 12 shall, in addition to the identification information prescribed in regulation 21.13.3, permanently and legibly mark the part or appliance with—
(a) the letters "A-PMA" OR 'ZA-TSO" as appropriate;
(d) the name, trademark, or symbol of the holder of the authorisation;
(c) the part number; and
(d) the name and the model designation of each product issued with a type certificate, on which the part is eligible for installation.

 

(2) The manufacturer of a TSO article must permanently and legibly mark each TSO article, unless otherwise specified in the applicable TSO, with—
(a) the TSO number and letter of designation;
(b) all markings specifically required by the TSO; and
(c) the serial number or the date of manufacture of the article or both.

 

(3) Any organisation which manufactures a replacement or modification part or appliance under Subparts 9 and 12 shall permanently and legibly mark the part or appliance in such a manner as to ensure it can be—
(a) identified separately to those otherwise acceptable materials, parts, and appliances; and
(b) clearly related to its manufacturing data.

 

(4) If the part or appliance is too small or it is otherwise impractical to mark the part or appliance, with the information required by regulation 21.13.7(1) or 21.13.7(2), the information shall be recorded on a tag attached to the part or appliance or its container.

 

(5) If the markings required by the regulation21.13.7(1)(d) is so extensive that to mark it on a tag is impractical, the tag attached to the part or appliance or container may refer to a specific readily available manual/catalogue for part or appliance eligibility information.

 

[Regulation 21.13.8 inserted by regulation 3 of Notice No. R. 532, GG 36712, dated 30 July 2013 (First Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2013)]