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The Civil Aviation (Approved Maintenance Organization) Regulations, 2025
28. Maintenance procedures and independent quality system
Edition: 2026-03-03 · In force
28. Maintenance procedures and independent quality system
(1)A Maintenance Organization shall establish maintenance procedures acceptable to the Authority to ensure good maintenance practices and compliance with all relevant requirements in these Regulations, such that aircraft, engines, components or specialized services may be properly released to service.(2)The maintenance procedures established under subregulation (1) shall—(a)cover all aspects of maintenance activity and describe standards to which the AMO intends to work;(b)take into account the aircraft and aircraft component design and AMO standards; and(c)address the provisions and limitations of these Regulations.(3)An AMO shall establish an independent quality assurance system, acceptable to the Authority, to monitor compliance with and adequacy of the procedures and by providing a system of inspection to ensure that all maintenance is properly performed.(4)The compliance monitoring specified in subregulation (3) shall include a feedback system to the designated management person or group of persons directly responsible for the quality system and ultimately to the accountable executive to ensure where necessary, corrective action is taken.(5)The quality assurance system established under subregulation (3)—(a)may be an independent system under the control of the Quality Manager that evaluates the maintenance procedures and the correctness of the Equivalent Safety Case process; and(b)shall include a procedure to initially qualify and periodically perform audits on persons performing work on behalf of the AMO.(6)An AMO's quality system shall be—(a)sufficient to review all maintenance procedures as described in the Maintenance Organization Procedures Manual in accordance with an approved program once a year for each aircraft type maintained; and(b)indicate when audits are due, when they are completed and establish a system of audit reports which can be reviewed by the Authority on request.(7)The audit system established under subregulation (6)(b) shall clearly establish a means by which audit reports containing observations about non-compliance or poor standards are communicated to the Accountable Executive.(8)The maintenance organization shall ensure that the procedures manual is amended as necessary to keep the information contained therein up to date.(9)Copies of all amendments to the procedures manual shall be furnished promptly to all organizations or persons to whom the manual has been issued.(10)If an AMO is a small organization, the independent audit part of the quality system may be contracted to another organization approved as a quality service provider or a person with appropriate technical knowledge and proven satisfactory audit experience recognized by the Authority.