Ouch..this is heading for a Kick RAA thread.
I cannot find the words in text. RAA ADMINISTERS recreational aviation for the CASA. RAA do not make the rules nor police them..The rules are all set by the CASA. The contracting state is Australia, the instrument of that contracting state is the REGS, CARS and CASRs The CASA enforces the instrument. RAA administers a part of avaition environment as does the GFA and the Warbirds and the like for the CASA. The rules by which RAA GFA and Warbirds all fly by are set by the CASA not each individual administration.
It all seems to be based upon "Informed Consent"
As for the hours issue in the CARs..I would suggest that AUF/RAA is a child too new to be fully written in to the CARS hence the exemption in CAO95.
As hours are recognised for flying gyrocopters and gliders..why not RAA aircraft. Reality is that a group A ultralight is every bit an aeroplane to fly as a Cessna..even harder to fly because of its design..inertia being the biggest catch out....The experience of flying a C152 or a Jab230 is still no comaprison to what is required to manage the systems of more complex aircraft other than you pull on the stick you go up, pull further and you will eventually go down again.
If there is an ambiguity in the Regs then the Regs need looking at...and that is the CASAs job...it just may take another hundred years before they get off their collective buns and actually do something about the regulation re-write.