Canadian Aviation Regulations (SOR/96-433)

401.12 (1) A flight crew permit or licence that is issued in the form of a booklet label is not valid unless

• (a) the label is affixed in an aviation document booklet;

• (b) the booklet number displayed on the label matches the number of the booklet; and

• (c) the booklet is signed by the holder.

(2) The validity period of a flight crew permit or licence that is issued in the form of a booklet label starts on the day on which it is issued and ends on the expiry date of the aviation document booklet in which it is affixed.

(3) The expiry date of an aviation document booklet that has a flight crew permit affixed in it but does not have a flight crew licence affixed in it is the first day of the sixty-first month following the day on which the booklet was issued.

(4) The expiry date of an aviation document booklet that has a flight crew licence affixed in it is

• (a) the first day of the sixty-first month following the day on which the booklet was issued, if the application for the licence included documentation establishing that the holder demonstrated an expert level ability during their language proficiency evaluation; or

• (b) the first day of the sixty-first month following the day on which the holder’s language proficiency evaluation was conducted, if the application for the licence included documentation establishing that the holder demonstrated an operational level ability during the evaluation.

(5) A flight crew permit or licence that was not issued in the form of a booklet label and is listed in column 1 of the table this subsection is valid until the day set out in column 2.