Safety and Emergency Procedure Checks
159.—(1)  An AOC holder must establish and maintain an assessment (called in these Regulations a Safety and Emergency Procedures Check) to assess a person’s competency in all the matters covered by the SEP training before the person is assigned duty as a crew member for a flight of a relevant aircraft.
(2)  The Safety and Emergency Procedures Check established in accordance with paragraph (1) must include an assessment of the person’s competency in the safety requirements and emergency procedures for each aircraft type and variant that the person may be assigned to operate in.
(3)  Where a person has passed a Safety and Emergency Procedures Check, that pass (called in this regulation an SEPC pass) —
(a)is valid for the remainder of the month in which the person passes the Safety and Emergency Procedures Check and a further period of 12 calendar months (which starts on the first day of the calendar month after the person passes the Safety and Emergency Procedures Check); and
(b)may be renewed for a further 12 calendar months, starting on the day immediately after the expiry of the existing SEPC pass, if the person completes and passes a Safety and Emergency Procedures Check in the last 3 calendar months of the validity of the existing SEPC pass.