Civil Aviation Regulations, 1996 (LI 1617).

Regulation 19 Members of Flight Crew; Requirement of Licences. (1) Subject to this regulation, a person shall not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in Ghana unless he is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under these Regulations except that a person may, within Ghana, act as a flight radio telephony operator without being the holder of such licence if; (a) he does so as the pilot of a glider not flying for the purposes of public transport or aerial work, or as a person being trained in an aircraft registered in Ghana to perform duties as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft; (b) he is authorised to operate the radio telephony station by the holder of a licence granted in respect of that station by the Authority in addition to any other authorisation required by any other law; (c) messages are transmitted only for the purposes of instruction, or of the safety or navigation of the aircraft; (d) messages are transmitted only on a frequency exceeding 60 megacycles per second assigned by the Authority for use on flights on which a flight radio telephony operator acts in one of the capacities specified in paragraph (a) of this regulation; (e) the transmitter is pre-set to one or more of the frequencies so assigned and cannot be adjusted in flight to any other frequency; (f) the operation of the transmitter requires the use only of external switches; or (g) the stability of the frequency radiated is maintained automatically by the transmitter. (2) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall not act as a member of the flight crew required by or under these Regulations to be carried in an aircraft registered outside Ghana unless: (a) in the case of an aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work he is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered; and (b) in the case of any other aircraft, he is the holder of an appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under the law of the country to which the aircraft is registered or under these Regulations, and the Authority does not in the particular case give a direction to the contrary. (3) For the purposes of this regulation a licence granted under the law of a Contracting State purporting to authorise its holder to act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft, not being a licence purporting to authorise him to act as a student pilot only, shall unless the Authority in a particular case gives a direction to the contrary be deemed to be a licence rendered valid under these Regulations but shall not entitle the holder to act as a member of the flight crew of any aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work.(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (1) a person may, unless the certificate of airworthiness in force in respect of the aircraft otherwise requires, act as pilot of an aircraft registered in Ghana for the purpose of undergoing training or tests: (a) for the grant or renewal of a pilot's licence or for the inclusion, renewal or extension of a rating thereon; or (b) for admission into any of the naval, military or air forces Ghana, without being the holder of the appropriate licence, if the following conditions are complied with; (i) no other person shall be carried in the aircraft or in aircraft being towed thereby except a person carried as a member of the flight crew in compliance with these Regulations, a person authorised by the Authority to witness the aforesaid training or tests or to conduct the aforesaid tests or if the pilot in command of the aircraft is the holder of an appropriate licence, a person carried for the purpose of being trained or tested as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft; and (ii) the person acting as the pilot of the aircraft without being the holder of an appropriate licence shall not be the pilot in command of the aircraft unless within the period of 6 months immediately preceding he was serving as a qualified pilot of an aircraft in any of the naval, military or air forces of Ghana and his physical condition has not, so far as he is aware, so deteriorated during that period as to render him unfit for the licence for which he intends to qualify. (5) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (1) of  this regulation, a person may act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in Ghana without being the holder of an appropriate licence if, in so doing he is acting in the course of his duty as a member of any of the naval, military or air forces of Ghana. (6) An appropriate licence for the purpose of this regulation means a licence which entitles the holder to perform the function which he undertakes in relation to the aircraft concerned and the flight on which it is engaged. (7) This regulation shall not apply to a person by reason of his acting as a member of the flight crew of a glider which is not flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work. (8) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation; (a) the holder of a licence granted or rendered valid under these Regulations being a licence endorsed to the effect that the holder does not satisfy in full the relevant international standard, shall not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in Ghana in or over the territory of a Contracting State other than Ghana, except in accordance with permission granted by the competent authorities of that State; (b) the holder of a licence granted or rendered valid under the law of a Contracting State other than Ghana, being a licence endorsed as aforesaid, shall not act as a member of the flight crew of any aircraft in or over Ghana except in accordance with permission granted by the Authority whether or not the licence is or is deemed to be rendered valid under these Regulations.

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