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12. Medical examination and certificate
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12.   Medical examination and certificate

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    (1)   The holder of a licence, rating or authorization granted pursuant to these Regulations for which a current medical certificate is also a prerequisite to perform any of the functions authorized, shall have a current medical certificate when engaged in those functions.

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    (2)   An applicant for or holder of a licence, rating or authorization shall upon such occasions as the Authority may require, submit himself or herself to a medical examination by a person approved by the Authority who shall make a report to the Authority in such form as the Authority may require.

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    (3)   On the basis of a medical examination pursuant to subregulation (2), the Authority or any person approved by the Authority as competent to do so may issue to the holder of the licence, rating or authorization, a medical certificate subject to the requirements of Part 2 of the Schedule and such conditions as the Authority thinks fit, as being medically fit to perform the functions to which the licence, rating or authorization relates and the medical certificate shall be valid for such period as is therein specified and shall be deemed to form part of the licence, rating or authorization.

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    (4)   A person shall not be entitled to act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in Saint Lucia if he or she knows or suspects that his or her physical or mental condition renders him or her temporarily or permanently unfit to perform such functions or to act in such capacity.

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    (5)   A holder of a medical certificate issued pursuant to these Regulations who—

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      (a)     suffers any personal injury involving incapacity to undertake his or her functions as a member of the flight crew; or

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      (b)     suffers any illness involving incapacity to undertake those functions throughout a period of 20 days or more;

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    shall inform the Authority in writing of such injury or illness, as soon as possible in the case of injury and as soon as the period of 20 days has elapsed in the case of illness and the medical certificate shall be deemed to be suspended upon the occurrence of such injury or the illness.

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    (6)   A suspension pursuant to sub-regulation (5) shall cease upon the holder being medically examined under arrangements made by the Authority and pronounced fit to resume his or her functions as a member of the flight crew or upon the Authority exempting, subject to such conditions as the Authority thinks fit, the holder from the requirement of a medical examination.

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    (7)   The Authority may issue a certificate of validation rendering valid for the purposes of these Regulations any licence as a member of the flight crew of aircraft granted under the law of any State other than Saint Lucia.

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