Part 21 prescribes what’s needed for:

  • an aircraft, product, or part to be certificated
  • for a design change, material, part, process, appliance, technical data, or a critical part,to be approved or authorised
  • for a document for a product, critical part, or appliance to be exported
  • for a product or critical part to be identified.

Consolidations of the Civil Aviation Rules are for reference – they are not the official versions of the rules – to view those, see “history of amendments”.

The history of amendments below, when expanded, shows copies of the original issue, amendments, and re-issues of this Part. Other legislative changes shown are for reference – to view the full version of the relevant amendment Act, see www.legislation.govt.nz(external link).

Amendment Effective date NPRM Summary of submissions
Amendment 9 [PDF 71 KB] 10 Mar 2017 NPRM [PDF 539 KB] Summary [PDF 55 KB]
Amendment 8 [PDF 233 KB] 03 Dec 2009    
Amendment 7 [PDF 190 KB] 01 Mar 2007    
Amendment 6 [PDF 91 KB] 28 Jul 2003    
Amendment 5 [PDF 861 KB] 25 Dec 1997    
Amendment 4 [PDF 110 KB] 01 Apr 1997    
Amendment 3 [PDF 1.5 MB] 01 Apr 1997    
Amendment 2 [PDF 92 KB] 15 Feb 1996    
Amendment 1 [PDF 363 KB] 12 Oct 1995    
Original issue [PDF 1.4 MB] 01 Jul 1995