Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Diving Regulations (SOR/95-189)

65. (1) The Chief Safety Officer may, on application, issue a pilot’s certificate that is valid for one year to a person who has attained a standard of competence in the operation of an ADS that is acceptable to the Chief Safety Officer and who

• (a) has successfully completed at least 40 hours of technical training in the design, construction, use and maintenance of an ADS at a school, institution or company acceptable to the Chief Safety Officer and who has made at least 25 ADS dives under various conditions with a bottom time totalling at least 40 hours;

• (b) held a pilot’s certificate that was issued pursuant to this subsection but is no longer valid because it was not renewed pursuant to subsection (2) and who has made at least six ADS dives with a bottom time totalling at least 20 hours to an average depth of at least 20 m during the 12 months preceding the application;

• (c) until December 31, 1990, has demonstrated to the Board that the person’s training and experience are equivalent to the training and experience described in paragraph (a); or

• (d) holds a valid document referred to in paragraph 64(d).

(2) The Chief Safety Officer may, on application by the holder of a pilot’s certificate issued pursuant to subsection (1), renew the certificate for a period of one year where the holder of that certificate has made at least four ADS dives with a dive time totalling at least 16 hours during the 12 months preceding the application.

66. (1) The Chief Safety Officer may insert in a pilot’s certificate issued pursuant to section 65 or 71, or attach to a document referred to in paragraph 64(d), restrictions on the piloting of an ADS by the holder of the certificate or document where the Chief Safety Officer considers those restrictions necessary for safety reasons.

(2) Where the Chief Safety Officer inserts a restriction in a certificate or attaches a restriction to a document pursuant to subsection (1), the Chief Safety Officer shall give the holder of the certificate or document an opportunity to show cause why that restriction should not be so inserted or attached.

67. (1) A medical doctor who examines a pilot for the purposes of subparagraph 64(b)(ii) or section 71 may insert in the pilot’s medical certificate medical restrictions on the pilot where the doctor considers those restrictions necessary for safety reasons.

(2) Where a medical doctor inserts medical restrictions in a pilot’s medical certificate pursuant to subsection (1) or certifies in a medical certificate in a pilot’s logbook that the pilot is medically unfit to pilot an ADS, the Chief Safety Officer shall, on application by the pilot within one month after the insertion or certification by the doctor, review the certificate and the pilot’s medical examination record related to the certificate with one or more medical doctors.

(3) Where, as a result of a review conducted by the Chief Safety Officer pursuant to subsection (2), the Board is satisfied that a restriction inserted in a certificate should be modified or removed, the Chief Safety Officer shall amend the certificate accordingly.

68. (1) The Chief Safety Officer may invalidate a pilot’s certificate issued pursuant to section 65 or 71 where, in the opinion of the Chief Safety Officer, the holder of the certificate has become incompetent or incapacitated.

(2) Where the Chief Safety Officer proposes to invalidate a pilot’s certificate pursuant to subsection (1), the Chief Safety Officer shall give the holder of the certificate at least 30 days notice in writing setting out the reasons for the proposed invalidation and shall give the holder an opportunity to show cause why the certificate should not be invalidated.