Civil Aviation Regulations, 1996 (LI 1617).

Regulation 8 Certificate of Maintenance Review. (1) An aircraft registered in Ghana 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 Authority in relation to that aircraft; and (b) there is in force a certificate (in these regulations referred to as a "certificate of maintenance review") issued in respect of the aircraft in accordance with the provisions of this regulation and the 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 sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall specify the occasions on which a review must be carried out for the purpose of issuing a certificate of maintenance review. (3) A certificate of maintenance review may be issued for the purpose of these regulations only by (a) the holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer's licence (i) granted under these Regulations being a licence which entitles him to issue that certificate; (ii) granted under the law of a country other than Ghana and rendered valid under these regulations in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence, or (iii) granted under the law of any such country as may be prescribed in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence and subject to any conditions which may be prescribed; (b) a person whom the Authority has authorised to issue a certificate of maintenance review in a particular case, and in accordance with that authority; or (c) a person approved by the Authority as being competent to issue such certificates, and in accordance with that approval; (4) Where the authority approves a maintenance schedule the Authority 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. (5) A person referred to in sub-regulation (3) 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 Authority as provided in regulation 6 of these regulations have been completed as certified in the relevant certificate of release to service issued in accordance with regulation 9; (c) defects entered in the technical log of the aircraft in accordance with regulation 9 of these regulations have been rectified or the rectification has been deferred in accordance with procedures approved by the Authority; and (d) certificates of release to service have been issued in accordance with regulation 10 of these Regulations and for this purpose the operator of the aircraft shall make available to that person such information as is necessary. (6) 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 regulation 60 of these Regulations so requires, and the other shall be kept by the operator elsewhere than in the aircraft. (7) Subject to the provisions of regulation 60 of these Regulations each certificate of maintenance review shall be preserved by the operator of the aircraft for a period of 2 years after it has been issued.

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