This is yet another manifestation of the loss of corporate competence in CASA.
One of the primary purposes of AIP book is to be a ‘compendium’ of all the key operational rules extracted from myriad nooks and crannies of each country’s aviation safety and regulatory regime, so that flight crew don’t have to refer to e.g. MOS Part 172 to find Australia’s wake turbulence separation standards, or to e.g. MOS part 91 for Australia’s VMC criteria, or to e.g. ….
AIP book is supposed to be a ‘one stop shop’ for all those key rules. By simply ‘pointing’ to those rules, CASA is rendering the AIP book practically useless.
Might as well have a one page AIP book: “Download the entirety of Australia’s aviation safety and regulatory legislation and do a keyword search of what you want to know.”