Porter, if you were on a medical stand down due to illness or injury (as opposed to some failure to meet the renewal criteria) and your medico had cleared you to fly, and there was an appropriate email or paper trail to CASA, what risk to SAFETY would have been posed had you just put yourself back on flying duties?
Mr Skidmore has already said that the new touchy feely CASA won't prosecute minor infractions of the rules. You and your doctor had discharged your responsibilities. If CASA were on an extended lunch break, that is not reason for you or your employer to be inconvenienced.
If more of us practiced gentle civil disobedience in trivial points of compliance, maybe CASA would be so overwhelmed that they would redirect their resources to the real issues affecting safety.
If that is really what Mr Skidmore wants, who are we to deny him?