Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations"authorised release certificate" , for an aircraft component, means a document that complies with regulation 42WA of CAR.
(2) For the purposes of CASR:
"authorised release certificate" , for an aeronautical product, means:
(a) if maintenance has not been carried out on the product since its manufacture, and the manufacture of the product was permitted by or under Part 21--a document:
(i) issued by the manufacturer of the product; and
(ii) that includes a statement to the effect that the product is serviceable, within the meaning given by subregulation 42.015(1); or
(b) if maintenance has not been carried out on the product since its manufacture, and the manufacture of the product was permitted by the law of a foreign country--a document of a kind specified in the Part 42 Manual of Standards as being equivalent to a document mentioned in paragraph (a); or
(c) if maintenance has been carried out on the product under these Regulations--a certificate of release to service for the product in relation to the maintenance issued under Division 42.H.4 that is in the approved form; or
(d) if maintenance has been carried out on the product under the law of a foreign country--a document of a kind specified in the Part 42 Manual of Standards as being equivalent to a document mentioned in paragraph (c).
Note 1: For paragraph (a), Part 21 permits the manufacture of aeronautical products in a number of ways, including under APMAs, ATSO authorisations, type certificates and production certificates.
Note 2: For paragraph (c):
(a) a certificate of release to service for an aeronautical product in relation to maintenance carried out on an aeronautical product that is not in - house maintenance must be in the approved form: see subregulation 42.810(1); and
(b) a certificate of release to service for an aeronautical product in
relation to in - house maintenance carried out on an aeronautical product must
either be in the approved form or be in the form of an in - house release
document: see subregulation 42.810(2).