The watering down of the veiw has been done to to avoid having to issue an exemption for Ballina where the CAGRO sits behind the duty fireman in the fire station lookout. Airservices (ARFFS) apparently believe that it is more important for the fireman to be able to watch the planes take off and land than for the CAGRO (not-Airservices) who provides traffic information to be able to see them properly. CASA remembers the remote AFIS where the FSO could only see their cardboard flight information strips so Airservices must be right!
The 10 year rule had been written by an idiot who did not know anything about licences because ATC licences, like pilot licences, never expire so their is no such thing as "have held", they are yours for life! The medical, ratings and endorsements expire, but not the licence. The idiot who wrote the current rule did not realise that if the 10 year rule was removed there was no need for para (f). This was becuase of the licensing conundrum thrown up be the old CASR - once a CAGRO passed the ten year mark he or she could never hold a CAGRO ticket, even though their last one had just expired! Get it - they no longer met the 10 year criteria. That was brought about by another CASA idiot who started to time-limit CAGRO tickets, originally they had no time limitation on them!
Talk about a comedy show - you could not invent this stuff if you tried....