Civil Aviation Regulations, 1996 (LI 1617).

Regulation 20: Grant and Renewal of Flight Crew Licences. (1) The Authority shall grant licences, subject to such conditions as it thinks fit, of any of the classes specified in Part A of Schedule 9 to these Regulations authorising the holder to act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in Ghana upon its being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to hold the licence, and is qualified by reason of his knowledge, competence, experience, skill, physical and mental fitness to act in the capacity to which the licence relates, and for that purpose the applicant shall furnish such evidence and undergo such examinations and tests (including in particular medical examinations) as the Authority may require of him. (2) A licence of any class shall not be granted to any person who is under the minimum age specified for that class of licence in Part A of Schedule 9. (3) A licence granted under this regulation shall not be valid unless it bears the ordinary signature of the holder in ink. (4) A licence shall, subject to the provisions of regulation 65 remain in force for the periods indicated in the licence not exceeding those respectively specified in schedule 9, and may be renewed by the Authority from time to time upon its being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person and qualified as aforesaid. (5) Subject to any conditions of the licence, a licence of any class shall entitle the holder to perform the functions specified in respect of that licence in Part A of Schedule 9 under the heading "privileges" provided that; (a) subject to the provisions of sub-regulations (10) and (11) of this regulation, regulation 19 (4) and regulation 23(1), a person shall not be entitled to perform any of the functions specified in Part B of Schedule 9 in respect of a rating unless his licence includes that rating; (b) a person shall not be entitled to perform any of the functions to which his licence relates if he knows or has reason to believe that his physical condition renders him temporarily or permanently unfit to perform such function; (c) the holder of a licence, other than a flight radio telephony operator's licence, shall not be entitled to perform any of the functions to which his licence relates unless it includes a medical certificate issued and in force under sub-regulation (7) (c) the holder of a pilot's licence shall not be entitled to perform functions on a flight unless the licence bears a valid certificate of test or a valid certificate of experience, which certificate shall in either case be appropriate to the functions he is to perform on that flight in accordance with Part C of the said Schedule and shall otherwise comply with that Part; (d) a person shall not be entitled to perform the functions to which an instrument rating (Aeroplanes), an instrument rating (helicopters), flying instructors rating or  assistant flying instructors rating relates unless; (i) his licence bears a certificate, signed by a person authorised by the Authority to sign such certificate; and (ii) the signed certificate specified in sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph indicates that the holder of the licence has within the period of thirteen months, in the case of an instrument rating (Aeroplanes), an instrument rating (helicopters), and an assistant flying instructor's rating, preceding the day on which he performs those functions, passed a test of his ability to perform the functions to which the rationing relates, being a test carried out in flight in relation to the two-last-named ratings and in the case of the first-named rating, a test in flight or by means of apparatus approved by the Authority in which flight conditions are simulated on the ground; (e) a person who, on the last occasion when he took a test for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (d) or (e) of sub-regulation (5) failed that test shall not be entitled to fly in the capacity for which that test would have qualified him if he had passed it. (6) The Authority may, if it is satisfied that the applicant is qualified as aforesaid to act in the capacity to which the rating relates, include in a licence a rating of any of the classes specified in Part B of Schedule 9, and such ratings shall be deemed to form part of the licence and shall entitle the holder to perform such functions as are specified in Part B of Schedule 9 in respect of that rating. (7) A licence shall subject to the provisions of regulation 65, remain in force for the periods indicated in the licence, not exceeding those respectively specified in Schedule 9, and may be renewed by the Authority upon his being satisfied that the applicant is a fit and proper person and is qualified as aforesaid. (8) Upon receiving a licence granted under this regulation, the holder shall forthwith sign his name thereon in ink with his ordinary signature. (9) Every applicant for and holder of a licence granted under this regulation other than a flight radiotelephony operator's licence shall whenever the Authority may require submit himself to medical examination by a person approved by the Authority either generally or in a particular case and the person shall make a report to the Authority in such form as the Authority may require. (10) Where the medical examination referred to in sub-regulation (9) is conducted in Ghana, the Authority or any person approved by it as competent to do so may, after receiving the report made by the person conduction the medical examination, issue a medical certificate subject to such conditions as it or he thinks fit to perform the functions to which the licence relates. The certificates shall, without prejudice to proviso (b) of sub-regulation (5) of this regulation, be valid for such period as is therein specified, and shall be deemed to form part of the licence. (11) Where the medical examination is conducted outside Ghana the person conducting the examination shall, in addition to making a report to the Authority in accordance with the preceding sub-regulation issue a certificate certifying, if such is in his opinion the case, that the holder of the licence is fit to perform the functions to which the licence relates and the certificate shall if countersigned by a person authorised by the Authority in that behalf under regulation 19, be deemed to be a medical certificate for the purposes of this regulation, and shall be valid for such period as the person who  countersigns may specify therein in writing. (12) Every holder of a licence, other than a flight radiotelephony operator's licence, granted under this regulation or rendered valid under regulation 19, who suffers (a) any personal injury involving incapacity to undertake the functions to which his licence relates; or (b) any illness involving incapacity to undertake those functions throughout a period of 20 days or more, shall inform the Authority in writing of such injury, or illness, as soon as possible in the case of an injury and as soon as the period of 20 days have elapsed in the case of illness. (13) A licence, other than a flight radiotelephony operator's licence, granted under this Part shall be deemed to be suspended upon the occurrence of such an injury, or the lapse of such period of illness except that the suspension of the licence shall cease (a) upon the holder being medically examined under arrangements made by the Authority and pronounced fit to resume his functions under the licence; or (b) upon the Authority exempting the holder from the requirements of a medical examination, subject to such conditions as the Authority may think fit. (14) A licence granted under this regulation shall be deemed to be suspended upon the upon the pregnancy of the holder being diagnosed and shall remain suspended until the holder has been medically examined after the pregnancy has ended and been pronounced fit to resume her duties under the licence. (15) Nothing in these Regulations shall be taken to prohibit the holder of a commercial pilot's or airline transport's licence from acting as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers by night by reason of the lack of a night rating in his licence. (16) Nothing in these Regulations shall prohibit the holder of a pilot's licence from acting as a pilot of an aircraft not exceeding 5,700kgs total weight authorised when with the permission of the Authority he is testing any person in pursuance of regulation 20(1) or (3), notwithstanding that type of aircraft in which the test is conducted is not specified in the aircraft rating included in his licence.

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