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Airworthiness Investigative Authority 12 (1) The Minister shall designate from among the members of the Canadian Forces or the employees of the Department of National Defence an individual to be the Airworthiness Investigative Authority, who is to be responsible for advancing aviation safety by (a) investigating military-civilian occurrences, in order to find their causes and contributing factors; (b) identifying safety deficiencies as evidenced by military-civilian occurrences; (c) making recommendations designed to eliminate or reduce any of those safety deficiencies; and (d) providing reports to the Minister on the investigations and the findings in relation to them. Restriction (2) In making findings in an investigation of a military-civilian occurrence, it is not the Authority’s function to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability, but the Authority shall not refrain from making a full report merely because fault or liability might be inferred from the Authority’s findings. Restriction (3) No finding of the Authority may be construed as assigning fault or determining civil or criminal liability. Findings not binding (4) The Authority’s findings are not binding on …