6.—(1) Any person may make a report under these Rules to a designated person about any aviation safety matter.
(2) Without limiting section 45 of the Act, an aviation safety matter includes any of the following that is not an excluded matter:
(a)
aircraft flight during the departure, en route, approach or landing phase;
(b)
aircraft cabin operations;
(c)
any occurrence in which 2 or more aircraft come into such close proximity that a threat to the safety of the aircraft exists or may exist, in airspace;
(d)
aircraft weight and balance;
(e)
aircraft flight performance;
(f)
aircraft ground operations;
(g)
aircraft movement at an airport;
(h)
aircraft fuelling operations;
(i)
airport conditions or services;
(j)
cargo handling;
(k)
air traffic management;
(l)
air traffic control operations;
(m)
air traffic control equipment and navigation aids;
(n)
communications between a flight crew and air traffic control;
(o)
aircraft maintenance;
(p)
record keeping in connection with aircraft operations or maintenance or air navigation services;
(q)
passenger handling operations;
(r)
aeronautical meteorology;
(s)
aeronautical information services;
(t)
design, production or repair of aircraft or aircraft components.
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Excluded information and not aviation safety matter
7. The following conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter is prescribed as excluded information for the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition of “excluded information” in section 45 of the Act:
(a)
any conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter that may constitute an offence under any written law (whether committed before, on or after 27 July 2020) unless an offence under section 86 of the Act is committed in the making of a report to the designated person;
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(b)
industrial relations issues;
(c)
any conduct, transaction, process, practice, occurrence, circumstance or matter that has no relation to aviation safety;
(d)
a dispute (legal or otherwise) between the reporter and any other person or between other persons.
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Reporting
8.—(1) A report about an aviation safety matter that is permitted by these Rules to be made to a designated person may be made —
(a)
orally in the English language, which must be by telephone using a telephone number specified by the designated person for the reporting of aviation safety matters; or
(b)
in writing, which must be —
(i)
in the appropriate form;
(ii)
completed in the English language and in accordance with such directions as may be specified in the appropriate form; and
(iii)
given to the designated person in a manner described in paragraph (3).
(2) However, where strict compliance with an appropriate form is not possible, the designated person may allow for the necessary modifications to be made to that form, or for the requirements of that form to be complied with in such other manner as the designated person thinks fit.
(3) A written report about an aviation safety matter that is permitted by these Rules to be made to a designated person may be given to the designated person as follows:
(a)
by sending by email to the electronic address specified by the designated person for the reporting of aviation safety matters;
(b)
by using the electronic system provided by the designated person for the reporting of aviation safety matters.
(4) Every report must include all the following information: