Declara- tion as to previous medical examina-
tion.
Knowledge of physical defect.
Injury or
¡liness of licence- holder.
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his physical condition conforms with the standard of fitness, i.e. physical, visual, colour perception and hearing, specified in regulation 35=
Provided that an applicant who does not satisfy the specified medical requirements may, at the discretion of the Director, be accepted as eligible for the grant or renewal of a licence so far as medical requirements are concerned. Any licence granted or renewed in accordance with this proviso may be made subject to such conditions and restrictions as the Director may consider appropriate in the particular case.
(b) The medical examination shall be conducted by specially qualified medical officers appointed by or acting under the authority of the Director. Applications for examination should be made to the Director.
31. Every applicant who presents himself for medical examination for the grant or renewal of a licence shall be required to furnish to the medical examiner a declaration signed by him stating whether he has previously undergone such medical examination and, if so, where, when and with what result. A false declaration may entail the cancellation of any licence granted or renewed as a result of the examination.
32. If the holder of a licence is aware, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, that his physical, aural or eye condition has deteriorated in any respect, even if only temporarily as a result of a common minor ailment, so that it may be below the standard of medical fitness required for the grant of such a licence, he shall not act in any capacity for which he is so licensed until he is satisfied that his condition has been restored to the required standard.
33. (1) If the holder of a licence—
(a) suffers any personal injury as the result of an accident occurring while he is acting in any capacity for which he is licensed;
(b) suffers any personal injury involving incapacity for work as the result of an accident occurring otherwise than while he is acting in any capacity for which he is licensed; or
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(c) suffers from any illness involving incapacity for work
during twenty days or more,
he shall send notification of the occurrence, in writing, la the Director as soon as possible in the case of accident, and, in the case of illness, as soon as the said period of twenty days has elapsed.
(2) The holder of a licence may, after suffering any such personal injury or illness as aforesaid, be required to undergo a full or partial medical examination. He shall not therefore resume acting in any capacity for which he is licensed until he has either been exantined and pronounced fit or notified that an examination is not required.
(3) Pregnancy shall be regarded as incapacitating the holder of a licence from carrying out flying duties. As soon as the condition has been diagnosed the holder of a licence shall cease flying and shall not again Ay until she has, in due course, been examined and pronounced fit.
(4) Whenever the holder of a licence has performed a total of 125 hours' flying in the capacity of a member of the operating crew of a flying machine or glider within any period of thirty consecutive days since his last medical examination under these regulations, he shall not continue to act in that capacity until he has been re-examined and pronounced fit:
Provided that in exceptional circumstances relaxations of the requirements of this paragraph may be made at the discretion of
the Director.
(5) The medical examinations required for the purpose of this regulation shall be in accordance with the same conditions and standards as for the grant or renewal of a licence, except, however, as provided by regulation 34.
examina-
34. If an applicant for the renewal of a licence is for the Deferring, time being acting as a member of the operating crew of an air of medical craft in a region distant from official medical centres the medical tion. examination which he should normally pass to obtain renewal of the licence may exceptionally, at the discretion of the Director-
(a) be deferred once for a period of six months in the case of a member of the operating crew of a private aircraft;
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