Below is an interesting take on the subject of the UAV Hire or Reward test which determines whether a UAV AOC is required.
STANDING COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL POLICY AND LEGAL AFFAIRS - Drones and privacy [Official Committee Hansard]
Mr PERRETT: A commercial purpose.
Mr McCormick: For hire or reward—
Mr PERRETT: And that involves a reward, does it?
Mr McCormick: Generally it is taken to involve reward, yes.
Mr PERRETT: Okay. So the World Wildlife Fund, or something like that, would not necessarily be commercial at all?
Mr McCormick: If they were operating in their own right as a private operation, and they were the operators of the RPA, they owned the equipment and they did not have to rent it from anybody or have an operator do that for them, then it would be a purely private operation, as it would be for an individual entity.
Apparently if you rent the equipment you need an AOC too
