Ok, so, do we all just roll over and give up?
I have no hesitation in confidently exercising the full privileges of a PIC. Like most people, I did the study, wrote notes, talked it over with trainers and got a good grip on “strick liability”. I don’t try to second guess the regs, or treat them like a typical CASA gotcha exam question.
The OP asked a very simple question, it needs a very simple answer. The scare mongering on many of the posts in this thread is not helpful. When I was a very junior pilot, the oldies seemed to delight in making a question into 10 more questions. now that I’m one of the oldies, I choose to be different and just answer the question, along with how I got the answer.