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Statutory Instrument
2001 No. 2128
The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2001
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STATUTORY
INSTRUMENTS
2001
No. 2128
CIVIL
AVIATION
The
Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2001
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Made
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9th June 2001
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Laid before Parliament
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20th June
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Coming into force
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16th July
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ARRANGEMENT OF ORDER
Citation, Commencement and Revocation
PART I
Registration
and Marking of Aircraft
PART II
Air Operators'
Certificates
PART III
Airworthiness
and Equipment of Aircraft
PART IV
Aircraft Crew
and Licensing
PART V
Operation of
Aircraft
PART VI
Fatigue of Crew
PART VII
Documents and
Records
PART VIII
Movement of
Aircraft
PART IX
Air Traffic
Services
PART X
Aerodromes,
Aeronautical Lights and Dangerous Lights
PART XI
General
SCHEDULES
At the Court at
Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of June 2001
Present,
The Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by Sections 8, 41,
57, 58, 59 and 61 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949[1] as extended
to certain territories by the Civil Aviation Act 1949 (Overseas Territories)
Order 1969[2], as
amended by the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Overseas Territories) Order 2001[3], and
all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the
advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and
it is hereby ordered, as follows:
Citation, Commencement and Revocation
Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the
Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2001 and shall come into force on
16th July 2001.
Revocation
2. The Orders specified in the
Schedule 1 to this Order are hereby revoked, except insofar as they apply to
Gibraltar.
PART I
Registration and Marking of Aircraft
Aircraft to be registered
3. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2) an aircraft shall not fly
in or over the Territory unless it is registered in:
(a) some part of the Commonwealth;
(b) a Contracting State; or
(c) some other country in relation to which there is in force an agreement
between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom
and the Government of
that country which makes provision for the flight over the Territory of
aircraft registered in that country.
(2)
(a) A glider may fly unregistered, and shall be
deemed to be registered in the Territory for the purposes of articles 14, 15,
21 and 43 of this Order, on any flight which:
(i) begins and ends in the
Territory without passing over any other country, and
(ii) is not for the purpose of public transport or aerial work other than
aerial work which consists of the giving of instruction
in flying or the
conducting of flying tests in a glider owned or operated by a flying club of
which the person giving the instruction
or conducting the test and the person
receiving the instruction or undergoing the test are both members.
(b) Any aircraft may fly unregistered on any flight
which:
(i) begins and ends in the
Territory without passing over any other country, and
(ii) is in accordance with the "B Conditions" set forth in Part A
of Schedule 3 to this Order.
(c) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any kite or
captive balloon.
(3) If an aircraft flies over the Territory in
contravention of paragraph (1) in such manner or circumstances
that if the
aircraft had been registered in the Territory an offence against this Order
or any regulations made thereunder
would have been committed, the like offence
shall be deemed to have been committed in respect of that aircraft.
Registration of aircraft in the Territory
4. - (1) The Governor shall be the authority for the
registration of aircraft in the Territory and shall be responsible
for
maintaining the register and may record therein the particulars specified in
paragraph (7) in a legible or a non-legible
form so long as the recording is
capable of being reproduced in a legible form.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this article, an
aircraft shall not be registered or continue to be
registered in the
Territory if it appears to the Governor that:
(a) the aircraft is registered outside the Territory
and that such registration does not cease by operation of law upon the
aircraft being registered in the Territory;
(b) an unqualified person holds any legal or beneficial interest by way of
ownership in the aircraft or any share therein;
(c) the aircraft could more suitably be registered in some other part of the
Commonwealth; or
(d) it would be inexpedient in the public interest for the aircraft to be or
to continue to be registered in the Territory.
(3) The following persons and no others shall
be qualified to hold a legal or beneficial interest by way
of ownership in an
aircraft registered in the Territory or a share therein:
(a) the Crown in right of Her Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom or in right of the Government of the Territory;
(b) Commonwealth citizens;
(c) citizens of the Republic of Ireland;
(d) British protected persons;
(e) bodies incorporated in some part of the Commonwealth and having their
principal place of business in any part of the Commonwealth;
or
(f) firms carrying on business in Scotland.
In this sub-paragraph "firm" has the same
meaning as in the Partnership Act 1890[4]
(4)
(a) If any unqualified person residing of having a place of business
in the Territory holds a legal or beneficial interest by way
of ownership in
an aircraft, or a share therein, the Governor, upon being satisfied that the
aircraft may otherwise be properly
so registered, may register the aircraft
in the Territory.
(b) The person aforesaid shall not cause or permit the aircraft, while it is
registered in pursuance of this paragraph, to
be used for the purpose of
public transport or aerial work.
(5)
If an aircraft is chartered to a person qualified as aforesaid the Governor
may, whether or not
an unqualified person is entitled as owner to a legal or
beneficial interest therein, register the aircraft in the Territory in
the
name of the charterer upon being satisfied that the aircraft may otherwise be
properly so registered, and subject to the
provisions of this article the
aircraft may remain so registered during the continuation of the charter.
(6) Application for the registration of an aircraft
in the Territory shall be made in writing to the
Governor, and shall include
or be accompanied by such particulars and evidence relating to the aircraft
and the ownership and
chartering thereof as he may require to enable him to
determine whether the aircraft may properly be registered in the Territory
and to issue the certificate referred to in paragraph (8). In particular, the
application shall include the proper description
of the aircraft according to
column 4 of the "General classification of aircraft" set forth in
Part A of Schedule
2 to this Order.
(7) Upon receiving an application for the
registration of an aircraft in the Territory and being satisfied
that the
aircraft may properly be so registered, the Governor shall register the
aircraft, wherever it may be, and shall include
in the register the following
particulars:
(a) the number of the certificate;
(b) the nationality mark of the aircraft, and the registration mark assigned
to it by the Governor;
(c) the name of the constructor of the aircraft and its designation;
(d) the serial number of the aircraft; and
(e)
(i) the name and address of every person who is entitled as owner to a
legal interest in the aircraft or a share therein, or in
the case of an
aircraft which is the subject of a charter by demise, the name and address of
the charterer by demise; and
(ii) in the case of an aircraft registered in pursuance of paragraphs (4) or
(5), an indication that it is so registered.
(8)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b) the Governor shall furnish to the
person in whose name the aircraft is registered (hereinafter
in this article
referred to as the "the registered owner") a certificate of registration,
which shall include the
foregoing particulars and the date on which the
certificate was issued.
(b) The Governor shall not be required to furnish a certificate of
registration if the registered owner is the holder of an
aircraft dealer's
certificate granted under this Order who has made to the Governor and has not
withdrawn a statement of his
intention that the aircraft is to fly only in
accordance with the conditions set forth in Part C of Schedule 2 to this
Order,
and in that case the aircraft shall fly only in accordance with those
conditions.
(9)
The Governor may grant to any person qualified as aforesaid an aircraft
dealer's certificate if
he is satisfied that he has a place of business in
the Territory for buying and selling aircraft.
(10) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), if at any
time after an aircraft has been registered in the
Territory an unqualified
person becomes entitled to a legal or beneficial interest by way of ownership
in the aircraft or a
share therein, the registration of the aircraft shall
thereupon become void and the certificate of registration shall forthwith
be
returned by the registered owner to the Governor.
(11) Any person who is the registered owner of an
aircraft registered in the Territory shall forthwith
inform the Governor in
writing of:
(a) any change in the particulars which were furnished to the Governor
upon application being made for the registration of the
aircraft;
(b) the destruction of the aircraft, or its permanent withdrawal from use; or
(c) in the case of an aircraft registered in pursuance of paragraph (5), the
termination of the demise charter.
(12)
Any person who becomes the owner of an aircraft registered in the Territory
shall within 28 days
inform the Governor in writing to that effect.
(13) The Governor may, whenever it appears to him
necessary or appropriate to do so for giving effect
to this Part of this
Order or for bringing up to date or otherwise correcting the particulars
entered on the register, amend
the register or, if he thinks fit, may cancel
the registration of the aircraft, and shall cancel that registration within
two
months of being satisfied that there has been a change in the ownership
of the aircraft.
(14) The Governor may, by regulations, adapt or modify
the foregoing provisions of this article as
he deems necessary or expedient
for the purpose of providing for the temporary transfer of aircraft to or
from the Territory
register, either generally or in relation to a particular
case or class of cases.
(15) In this article references to an interest in an
aircraft do not include references to an interest
in an aircraft to which a
person is entitled only by virtue of his membership of a flying club and the
reference in paragraph
(11) to the registered owner of an aircraft includes,
in the case of a deceased person, his legal personal representative, and
in
the case of a body corporate which has been dissolved, its successor.
(16) Nothing in this article shall require the
Governor to cancel the registration of an aircraft if
in his opinion it would
be inexpedient in the public interest to do so.
(17) The registration of an aircraft which is the
subject of an undischarged mortgage entered in the
Register of Aircraft
Mortgages kept in the Territory pursuant to an Order in Council made under
section 86 of the Civil Aviation
Act 1982[5] which
extends to the Territory or pursuant to other legislation in force in the
Territory relating to the mortgaging of aircraft,
shall not become void by
virtue of paragraph (10) of this Article, nor shall the Governor cancel the
registration of such an
aircraft pursuant to this Article unless all persons
shown in the Register of Aircraft Mortgages as mortgagees of that aircraft
have consented to the cancellation.
(18) The Governor shall, at such times and in such a
manner as may from time to time be directed by
the Civil Aviation Authority,
transmit to the Civil Aviation Authority particulars of all registrations and
of changes in or
cancellations of registrations, entered in the register.
Nationality and registration marks
5. - (1) An aircraft
(other than an aircraft permitted by or under this Order to fly without being
registered) shall
not fly unless it bears painted thereon or affixed thereto,
in the manner required by the law of the country in which it is registered,
the nationality and registration marks required by that law.
(2) The marks to be borne by aircraft registered in
the Territory shall comply with Part B of Schedule
2 to this Order.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), an aircraft shall not
bear any marks which purport to indicate:
(a) that the aircraft is registered in a country in
which it is not in fact registered, or
(b) that the aircraft is a State aircraft of a particular country if it is
not in fact such an aircraft, unless the appropriate
authority of that
country has sanctioned the bearing of such marks.
(4) Marks approved by the Governor for the purposes
of flight in accordance with the 'B Conditions' contained
in Part A of
Schedule 3 to this Order shall be deemed not to purport to indicate that the
aircraft is registered in a country
in which it is not in fact registered.
PART II
Air Operators' Certificates
Issue of air operators' certificates
6. - (1) Subject to article 7 of this Order, an aircraft
registered in the Territory shall not fly on any flight for the
purpose of
public transport, otherwise than under and in accordance with the terms of an
air operator's certificate granted
to the operator of the aircraft under
paragraph (2), certifying that the holder of the certificate is competent to
secure that
aircraft operated by him on such flights as that in question are
operated safely.
(2)
(a) The Governor shall grant an air operator's
certificate if he is satisfied that the applicant is competent, having regard
in particular to his previous conduct and experience, his equipment,
organisation, staffing, maintenance and other arrangements,
to secure the
safe operation of aircraft of the types specified in the certificate on
flights of the description and for the
purposes so specified.
(b) A certificate may be granted subject to such conditions as the Governor
thinks fit and shall, subject to article 81 of
this Order, remain in force
for the period specified in the certificate.
Issue of police air operators' certificates
7. - (1) A flight by an aircraft registered in the Territory
in the service of the police authority for the Territory
(in this Order
called 'the police authority') shall, for the purposes of this Order, be
deemed to be a flight for the purpose
of public transport and if any
passenger is carried the flight shall be deemed to be for the purpose of
public transport of
passengers, and save as otherwise expressly provided, the
provisions of this Order and of any regulations made thereunder shall
be
complied with in relation to any such flight as if that flight was for the
purpose of public transport or public transport
of passengers as the case may
be.
(2) An aircraft registered in the Territory shall not
fly on any flight in the service of the police
authority otherwise than under
and in accordance with either the terms of an air operator's certificate
granted to the operator
of the aircraft under article 6(2) of this Order or
the terms of a police air operator's certificate granted to the operator of
the aircraft under paragraph (3), certifying that the holder of the
certificate is competent to secure that aircraft operated
by him on flights
for the purpose of police operations are operated as safely as is appropriate
having regard to the particular
purposes of the flight.
(3) The Governor shall grant a police air operator's
certificate (in this Order called 'a police air
operator's certificate') if
he is satisfied that the applicant is competent having regard in particular
to his previous conduct
and experience, his equipment, organisation,
staffing, maintenance and other arrangements, to secure that the operation of
aircraft of the types specified in the certificate shall be as safe as is
appropriate when flying on flights of the description
and for the purposes so
specified. The certificate may be granted subject to such conditions as the
Governor thinks fit and
shall, subject to article 81 of this Order, remain in
force for the period specified in the certificate.
PART III
Airworthiness and Equipment of Aircraft
Certificate of airworthiness to be in force
8. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2) an aircraft shall not fly
unless there is in force in respect thereof a certificate
of airworthiness
duly issued or rendered valid under the law of the country in which the
aircraft is registered or the State
of the operator, and any conditions
subject to which the certificate was issued or rendered valid are complied
with.
(2) The foregoing prohibition shall not apply to
flights, beginning and ending in the Territory without
passing over any other
country, of:
(a) a glider, if it is not being used for the public
transport of passengers or aerial work other than aerial work which consists
of the giving of instruction in flying or the conducting of flying tests in a
glider owned or operated by a flying club of
which the person giving the
instruction or conducting the test and the person receiving the instruction
or undergoing the test
are both members;
(b) a balloon flying on a private flight;
(c) a kite;
(d) an aircraft flying in accordance with the 'A Conditions' or the 'B
Conditions' set forth in Part A of Schedule 3 to this
Order; or
(e) an aircraft flying in accordance with the conditions of a permit to fly
issued by the Governor in respect of that aircraft.
(3) In the case of an aircraft registered in
the Territory the certificate of airworthiness referred to
in paragraph (1)
shall be a certificate issued or rendered valid in accordance with the
provisions of article 9 of this Order.
Issue, renewal, etc., of certificates of airworthiness
9. - (1) The Governor shall issue in respect of any aircraft
a certificate of airworthiness if he is satisfied that the
aircraft is fit to
fly having regard to:
(a) the design, construction, workmanship and
materials of the aircraft (including in particular any engines fitted
therein),
and of any equipment carried in the aircraft which he considers
necessary for the airworthiness of the aircraft; and
(b)
(i) Subject to sub-paragraph (ii)
the results of flying trials, and such other tests of the aircraft as he may
require:
(ii) if the Governor has issued a certificate of airworthiness in respect of
an aircraft which, in his opinion, is a prototype
aircraft or a modification
of a prototype aircraft, he may dispense with flying trials in the case of
any other aircraft if
he is satisfied that it conforms to such prototype or
modification.
(2) Every certificate of airworthiness shall
specify such categories as are, in the opinion of the Governor,
appropriate
to the aircraft in accordance with Part B of Schedule 3 to this Order and the
certificate shall be issued subject
to the condition that the aircraft shall
be flown only for the purposes indicated in the said Schedule in relation to
those
categories.
(3) The Governor may issue the certificate of
airworthiness subject to such other conditions relating
to the airworthiness
of the aircraft as he thinks fit.
(4) The certificate of airworthiness may designate
the performance group to which the aircraft belongs
for the purposes of the
requirements referred to in article 36(1) of this Order.
(5) The Governor may, subject to such conditions as
he thinks fit, issue a certificate of validation
rendering valid for the
purposes of this Order a certificate of airworthiness issued in respect of
any aircraft under the law
of any country other than the Territory.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this article and of
article 81 of this Order, a certificate of airworthiness
or validation issued
under this article shall remain in force for such a period as may be
specified therein, and may be renewed
from time to time by the Governor for
such further period as he thinks fit.
(7) A certificate of airworthiness or a certificate
of validation issued in respect of an aircraft
shall cease to be in force:
(a) if the aircraft, or such of its equipment as is
necessary for the airworthiness of the aircraft, is overhauled, repaired or
modified, or if any part of the aircraft or of such equipment is removed or
is replaced, otherwise than in a manner and with
material of a type approved
by the Governor either generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or to
the particular aircraft;
(b) until the completion of any inspection or maintenance of the aircraft or
of any such equipment as aforesaid, being an inspection
made for the purpose
of ascertaining whether the aircraft remains airworthy and:
(i) classified as mandatory by the
Governor;
(ii) required by a maintenance schedule approved by the Governor in relation
to that aircraft; or
(c) until the completion to the satisfaction of the
Governor of any modification of the aircraft or of any such equipment as
aforesaid, being a modification required by the Governor for the purpose of
ensuring that the aircraft remains airworthy.
(8) Nothing in this Order shall oblige the
Governor to accept an application for the issue of a certificate
of
airworthiness or validation or for the variation or renewal of any such
certificate when the application is not supported
by such reports from such
approved persons as the Governor may specify (either generally or in a
particular case or class of
cases).
Certificate of maintenance review
10. - (1)
(a) An aircraft registered in the
Territory in respect of which a certificate of airworthiness is in force
shall not fly unless
the aircraft (including in particular its engines),
together with its equipment and radio station, is maintained in accordance
with a maintenance schedule approved by the Governor in relation to that
aircraft.
(b) An aircraft registered in the Territory in respect of which a certificate
of airworthiness in either the transport or in
the aerial work category is in
force shall not fly unless there is in force a certificate (in this Order
referred to as a 'certificate
of maintenance review') issued in respect of
the aircraft in accordance with the provisions of this article and such
certificate
shall certify the date on which the maintenance review was
carried out and the date when the next review is due.
(2) A maintenance schedule
approved pursuant to paragraph (1) in relation to an aircraft in respect of
which there has been issued a certificate of airworthiness in either the
transport or in the aerial work category shall specify
the occasions on which
a review must be carried out for the purpose of issuing a certificate of
maintenance review.
(3)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
a certificate of maintenance review may be issued for the purposes of this
article only by:
(i) the holder of an aircraft
maintenance engineer's licence:
(aa) granted under this Order,
being a licence which entitles him to issue that certificate;
(bb) granted under the law of a country other than the Territory and rendered
valid under this Order in accordance with the
privileges endorsed on the
licence; or
(cc) granted under the law of any country specified in regulation 15 in Schedule
14 to this Order in accordance with the privileges
endorsed on the licence
and subject to any conditions which may be prescribed.
(ii) a person whom the Governor
has authorised to issue a certificate of maintenance review in a particular
case, and in accordance
with that authority; or
(iii) a person approved by the Governor as being competent to issue such a
certificate, and in accordance with that approval.
(b) In approving a maintenance
schedule, the Governor may direct that certificates of maintenance review
relating to that schedule,
or to any part thereof specified in his direction,
may be issued only by the holder of such a licence as is so specified.
(4) A person referred to in
paragraph (3) shall not issue a certificate of maintenance review unless he
has first verified that:
(a) maintenance has been carried
out on the aircraft in accordance with the maintenance schedule approved for
that aircraft;
(b) inspections and modifications required by the Governor as provided in
article 9 of this Order have been completed as certified
in the relevant
certificate of release to service issued under this Order;
(c) defects entered in the technical log of the aircraft in accordance with
article 11 of this Order have been rectified or
the rectification thereof has
been deferred in accordance with procedures approved by the Governor; and
(d) certificates of release to service have been issued under this Order and
for this purpose the operator of the aircraft
shall make available to that
person such information as is necessary.
(5)
(a) A certificate of maintenance
review shall be issued in duplicate.
(b) One copy of the most recently issued certificate shall be carried in the
aircraft when article 76 of this Order so requires,
and the other shall be kept
by the operator elsewhere than in the aircraft.
(6) Subject to article 80 of
this Order, each certificate of maintenance review shall be preserved by the
operator of the aircraft for a period of two years after it has been issued.
Technical Log
11. - (1) A technical log shall be kept in
respect of every aircraft registered in the Territory in respect of which a
certificate of airworthiness in either the transport or in the aerial work
category is in force.
(2)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
at the end of every flight by an aircraft to which the provisions of this
article apply the
commander of the aircraft shall enter:
(i) the times when the aircraft
took off and landed;
(ii) particulars of any defect which is known to him and which affects the
airworthiness or safe operation of the aircraft,
or if no such defect is
known to him, an entry to that effect; and
(iii) such other particulars in respect of the airworthiness or operation of
the aircraft as the Governor may require;
in a technical log, or, in the
case of an aircraft of which the maximum total weight authorised does not
exceed 2730 kg and
which is not operated by a person who is the holder of or
is required by article 6(1) of this Order to hold an air operator's
certificate, in such other record as the Governor shall approve, and the
commander shall sign and date such entries.
(b) In the case of a number of consecutive flights each of which begins and
ends:
(i) within the same period of 24
hours.
(ii) at the same aerodrome, except where each such flight is for the purpose
of dropping or projecting any material for agricultural,
public health or
similar purposes; and
(iii) with the same person as commander of the aircraft:
the commander of an aircraft may,
except where he becomes aware of a defect during an earlier flight, make the
entries specified
in sub-paragraph (a) in a technical log at the end of the
last of such consecutive flights.
(3) Upon the rectification
of any defect which has been entered in a technical log in accordance with
paragraph (2) a person issuing a certificate of release to service issued
under this Order in respect of that defect shall enter
the certificate in the
technical log in such a position as to be readily identifiable with the
defect to which it relates.
(4) (a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b), the technical
log referred to in this article shall be carried
in the aircraft when article
76 of this Order so requires and copies of the entries referred to in this
article shall be kept
on the ground.
(b) In the case of an aeroplane of
which the maximum total weight authorised does not exceed 2730 kg, or a
helicopter, if it
is not reasonably practicable for the copy of the technical
log to be kept on the ground it may be carried in the aeroplane or
helicopter, as the case may be, in a container approved by the Governor for
that purpose.
(5) Subject to article 80 of
this Order, a technical log or such other approved record required by this
article shall be preserved by the operator of the aircraft to which it
relates until a date 2 years after the aircraft has
been destroyed or has
been permanently withdrawn from use, or for such shorter period as the
Governor may permit in a particular
case.
Inspection, overhaul, repair, replacement and modification
12. - (1) This article shall apply to any
aircraft registered in the Territory in respect of which a certificate of
airworthiness issued or rendered valid under this Order is in force.
(2) Except as provided in paragraphs (4) and (5) an
aircraft to which this article applies shall not
fly unless there is in force
a certificate of release to service issued under this Order if the aircraft
or any part of the
aircraft or such of its equipment as is necessary for the
airworthiness of the aircraft has been overhauled, repaired, replaced,
modified, maintained or has been inspected as provided in article 9(7)(b) of
this Order, as the case may be.
(3) If a repair or replacement of a part of an
aircraft or its equipment is carried out when the aircraft
is at such a place
that it is not reasonably practicable:
(a) for the repair or replacement
to be carried out in such a manner that a certificate of release to service
under this Order
can be issued in respect thereof; or
(b) for such a certificate to be issued while the aircraft is at that place;
it may fly to a place at which such a certificate
can be issued, being the nearest place:
(i) to which the aircraft can, in
the reasonable opinion of the commander thereof, safely fly by a route for
which it is properly
equipped; and
(ii) to which it is reasonable to fly having regard to any hazards to the
liberty or health of any person on board;
and in such case the commander of
the aircraft shall cause written particulars of the flight, and the reasons for
making it,
to be given to the Governor within 10 days thereafter.
(4) A certificate of release
to service shall not be required to be in force in respect of an aircraft
to
which this article applies of which the maximum total weight authorised does
not exceed 2730 kg and in respect of which
a certificate of airworthiness in
the special category is in force, unless the Governor gives a direction to
the contrary in
a particular case.
(5)
(a) A certificate of release to
service shall not be required to be in force in respect of an aircraft to
which this article
applies of which the maximum total weight authorised does
not exceed 2730 kg and in respect of which a certificate of airworthiness
in
the private or special categories is in force if it flies in the
circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b).
(b)
(i) The only repairs or
replacements in respect of which a certificate of release to service is not
in force are of such a description
as are specified in regulation 17 in
Schedule 14 to this Order.
(ii) Such repairs or replacements have been carried out personally by the
holder of a pilot's licence granted or rendered valid
under this Order who is
the owner or operator of the aircraft.
(iii) The person carrying out the repairs or replacements shall keep in the
aircraft log book kept in respect of the aircraft
pursuant to article 17 of
this Order a record which identifies the repairs or replacement and shall
sign and date the entries.
(iv) Any equipment or parts used in carrying out such repairs or replacements
shall be of a type approved by the Governor either
generally or in relation
to a class of aircraft or one particular aircraft.
(c) The person responsible for
keeping the aircraft log book shall, subject to article 80 of this Order,
preserve the log book
for the period specified in article 17 of this Order.
(6) Neither:
(a) equipment provided in
compliance with Schedule 4 to this Order (except paragraph 3 thereof); nor
(b) radio apparatus provided for use in an aircraft or in any survival craft
carried in an aircraft, whether or not such apparatus
is provided in
compliance with this Order or any regulations made thereunder,
shall be installed or placed on board for use in an
aircraft to which this article applies after being overhauled, repaired,
modified or inspected, unless there is in force in respect thereof at the
time when it is installed or placed on board a certificate
of release to
service issued under this Order.
(7) A certificate of release to service issued under
this Order shall:
(a) certify that the aircraft or
any part thereof or its equipment has been overhauled, repaired, replaced,
modified or maintained,
as the case may be, in a manner and with material of
a type approved by the Governor either generally or in relation to a class
of
aircraft or the particular aircraft and shall identify the overhaul, repair,
replacement, modification or maintenance to
which the certificate relates and
shall include particulars of the work done; or
(b) certify in relation to any inspection required by the Governor that the
aircraft or the part thereof or its equipment,
as the case may be, has been
inspected in accordance with the requirements of the Governor and that any
consequential repair,
replacement or modification has been carried out as
aforesaid.
(8) A certificate of release
to service issued under this Order may be issued only by:
(a) the holder of an aircraft
maintenance engineer's licence:
(i) granted under this Order,
being a licence which entitles him to issue that certificate;
(ii) granted under the law of a country other than the Territory and rendered
valid under this Order, in accordance with the
privileges endorsed on the
licence; or
(iii) granted under the law of any country specified in regulation 15 in
Schedule 14 to this Order in accordance with the privileges
endorsed on the
licence and subject to any conditions which may be prescribed;
(b) the holder of an aircraft
maintenance engineer's licence or authorisation as such an engineer granted
or issued by or under
the law of any Contracting State other than the
Territory in which the overhaul, repair, replacement, modification or
inspection
has been carried out, but only in respect of aircraft to which
this article applies of which the maximum total weight authorised
does not
exceed 2730 kg and in accordance with the privileges endorsed on the licence;
(c) a person approved by the Governor as being competent to issue such
certification, and in accordance with that approval;
(d) a person whom the Governor has authorised to issue the certificate in a
particular case, and in accordance with that authority;
or
(e) in relation only to the adjustment and compensation of direct reading
magnetic compasses, the holder of an Airline Transport
Pilot's Licence
(Aeroplanes) or a Flight Navigator's Licence granted or rendered valid under
this Order.
(9) In this article, the
expression "repair" includes in relation to a compass the
adjustment
and compensation thereof and the expression "repaired"
shall be construed accordingly.
Licensing of maintenance engineers
13. - (1) The Governor shall grant aircraft
maintenance engineers' licences, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit,
upon being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to hold the licence
and is qualified by reason of his knowledge, experience,
competence and skill
in aeronautical engineering, and for that purpose the applicant shall furnish
such evidence and undergo
such examinations and tests as the Governor may
require of him.
(2) An aircraft maintenance engineer's licence shall
authorise the holder, subject to such conditions
as may be specified in the
licence, to issue:
(a) certificates of maintenance
review in respect of such aircraft as may be so specified;
(b) certificates of release to service under this Order in respect of such
overhauls, repairs, replacements, modifications,
maintenance and inspections
of such aircraft and such equipment as may be so specified; or
(c) certificates of fitness for flight under "A Conditions" in
respect of such aircraft as may be so specified.
(3) A licence shall, subject
to article 81 of this Order, remain in force for the period specified
therein,
not exceeding five years, but may be renewed by the Governor from
time to time upon his being satisfied that the applicant is
a fit person and
is qualified as aforesaid.
(4)
(a) The Governor may issue a
certificate rendering valid for the purposes of this Order any licence as an
aircraft maintenance
engineer granted under the law of any country other than
the Territory.
(b) Such a certificate may be issued subject to conditions, and for such
periods, as the Governor thinks fit.
(5) A licence granted under
this article shall not be valid unless it bears thereon the ordinary
signature
of the holder in ink.
(6) Without prejudice to any other provision of this
Order the Governor may, for the purposes of this
article, either absolutely
or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit:
(a) approve any course of training
or instruction;
(b) authorise a person to conduct such examinations or tests as he may
specify; and
(c) approve a person to provide or conduct any course of training or
instruction.
(7) The holder of an
aircraft maintenance engineer's licence shall not exercise the privileges of such
a licence if he knows or suspects that his physical or mental condition
renders him unfit to exercise such privileges.
(8) The holder of an aircraft maintenance engineer's
licence shall not, when exercising the privileges
of such a licence, be under
the influence of drink or a drug to such an extent as to impair his capacity
to exercise such privileges.
Equipment of aircraft
14. - (1) An aircraft shall not fly unless
it is so equipped as to comply with the law of the country in which it is registered,
and to enable lights and markings to be displayed, and signals to be made, in
accordance with this Order and any regulations
made thereunder.
(2) In the case of any aircraft registered in the
Territory the equipment required to be provided (in
addition to any other
equipment required by or under this Order) shall:
(a) be that specified in such
parts of Schedule 4 to this Order as are applicable in the circumstances;
(b) comply with the provisions of that Schedule;
(c) except that specified in paragraph 3 of the said Schedule, be of a type
approved by the Governor either generally or in
relation to a class of
aircraft or in relation to that aircraft; and
(d) be installed in a manner so approved.
(3) In any particular case
the Governor may direct that an aircraft registered in the Territory shall
carry such additional or special equipment or supplies as he may specify for
the purpose of facilitating the navigation of the
aircraft, the carrying out
of search and rescue operations or the survival of the persons carried in the
aircraft.
(4) The equipment carried in compliance with this
article shall be so installed or stowed and kept
stowed, and so maintained
and adjusted as to be readily accessible and capable of being used by the
person for whose use it
is intended.
(5)
(a) The position of equipment
provided for emergency use shall be indicated by clear markings in or on the
aircraft.
(b) In every public transport aircraft registered in the Territory there
shall be provided individually for each passenger
or, if the Governor so
permits in writing, exhibited in a prominent position in every passenger
compartment, a notice which
complies with sub-paragraph (c).
(c)
(i) The required notice shall be
relevant to the aircraft in question;
(ii) The required notice shall contain pictorial instructions on the brace
position to be adopted in the event of an emergency
landing;
(iii) The required notice shall contain pictorial instructions on the method
of use of the safety belts and safety harnesses
as appropriate;
(iv) The required notice shall contain pictorial information as to where
emergency exits are to be found and instructions as
to how they are to be
used;
(v) The required notice shall contain pictorial information as to where the
lifejackets, escape slides, liferafts and oxygen
masks, if required to be
provided by paragraph (2), are to be found and instructions as to how they
are to be used.
(6) All equipment installed
or carried in an aircraft, whether or not in compliance with this article,
shall be so installed or stowed and so maintained and adjusted as not to be a
source of danger in itself or to impair the airworthiness
of the aircraft or
the proper functioning of any equipment or services necessary for the safety
of the aircraft.
(7) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), all
navigational equipment (other than radio apparatus) of
any of the following
types, namely:
(a) equipment capable of
establishing the aircraft's position in relation to its position at some
earlier time by computing
and applying the resultant of the acceleration and
gravitational forces acting upon it; and
(b) equipment capable of establishing automatically the altitude and relative
bearing of selected celestial bodies;
when carried in an aircraft registered in the
Territory (whether or not in compliance with this Order or any regulations
made
thereunder) shall be of a type approved by the Governor either generally
or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation
to that aircraft and
shall be installed in a manner so approved.
(8) This article shall not apply in relation to radio
apparatus except that specified in Schedule 4
to this Order.
Radio equipment of aircraft
15. - (1) An aircraft shall not fly unless
it is so equipped with radio and radio navigation equipment as to comply with
the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered or the State of
the operator and to enable communications to be
made and the aircraft to be
navigated, in accordance with the provisions of this Order and any
regulations made thereunder,
and in particular Schedule 14 to this Order.
(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), the aircraft
shall be equipped with radio and radio navigation
equipment in accordance
with Schedule 5 to this Order.
(3) In any particular case the Governor may direct
that an aircraft registered in the Territory shall
carry such additional or
special radio or radio navigation equipment as he may specify for the purpose
of facilitating the
navigation of the aircraft, the carrying out of search
and rescue operations or the survival of the persons carried in the aircraft.
(4) Subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed
the radio and radio navigation equipment provided
in compliance with this
article in an aircraft registered in the Territory shall always be maintained
in serviceable condition.
(5) All radio and radio navigation equipment
installed in an aircraft registered in the Territory or
carried on such an
aircraft for use in connection with the aircraft (whether or not in
compliance with this Order or any regulations
made thereunder) shall be of a
type approved by the Governor in relation to the purpose for which it is to
be used, and shall,
except in the case of a glider which is permitted by
article 3(2) of this Order to fly unregistered, be installed in a manner
approved by the Governor. Neither the equipment nor the manner in which it is
installed shall be modified except with the approval
of the Governor.
Minimum equipment requirements
16. - (1) The Governor may, subject to such
conditions as he thinks fit, grant in respect of any aircraft or class of
aircraft registered in the Territory a permission permitting such aircraft to
commence a flight in specified circumstances notwithstanding
that any
specified item of equipment (including radio apparatus) required by or under
this Order to be carried in the circumstances
of the intended flight is not
carried or is not in a fit condition for use.
(2) An aircraft registered in the Territory shall not
commence a flight if any of the equipment (including
radio apparatus)
required by or under this Order to be carried in the circumstances of the
intended flight is not carried or
is not in a fit condition for use:
(a) otherwise than under and in
accordance with the terms of a permission under this article which has been
granted to the operator;
and
(b) unless in the case of an aircraft to which article 31 of this Order
applies, the operations manual required thereby contains
the particulars
specified at sub-paragraph (xvii) of Part A of Schedule 10 to this Order; and
(c) unless in the case of an aircraft to which article 32 of this Order
applies, the police operations manual required thereby
contains the
particulars specified in sub-paragraph (xvii) of Part A of Schedule 10 to
this Order.
Aircraft, engine and propeller log books
17. - (1) In addition to any other log books
required by or under this Order, the following log books shall be kept in
respect of aircraft registered in the Territory:
(a) an aircraft log book;
(b) a separate log book in respect of each engine fitted in the aircraft; and
(c) a separate log book in respect of each variable pitch propeller fitted to
the aircraft.
(2) The log books shall
include the particulars respectively specified in Schedule 6 to this Order
and
in the case of an aircraft having a maximum total weight authorised not
exceeding 2730 kg, shall be of a type approved by the
Governor.
(3)
(a) Each entry in the log book,
other than such an entry as is referred to in sub-paragraphs 2(d)(ii) or
3(d)(ii) of Schedule
6 to this Order, shall be made as soon as practicable
after the occurrence to which it relates, but in no event more than seven
days after the expiration of the certificate of maintenance review (if any)
in force in respect of the aircraft at the time
of the occurrence.
(b) Each entry in the log book, being such an entry as is referred to in
sub-paragraphs 2(d)(ii) or 3(d)(ii) of Schedule 6
to this Order shall be made
upon each occasion that any maintenance, overhaul, repair, replacement,
modification or inspection
is undertaken on the engine or propeller, as the
case may be.
(4) Any document which is
incorporated by reference in a log book shall be deemed, for the purposes of
this Order, to be part of the log book.
(5) It shall be the duty of the operator of every
aircraft in respect of which log books are required
to be kept as aforesaid
to keep them or cause them to be kept in accordance with the foregoing
provisions of this article.
(6) Subject to article 80 of this Order every log
book shall be preserved by the operator of the aircraft
until a date 2 years
after the aircraft, the engine or the variable pitch propeller, as the case
may be, has been destroyed
or has been permanently withdrawn from use.
Aircraft weight schedule
18. - (1) Every flying machine and glider in
respect of which a certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid
under this Order is in force shall be weighed, and the position of its centre
of gravity determined, at such times and in such
manner as the Governor may
require or approve in the case of that aircraft.
(2) Upon the aircraft being weighed as aforesaid the
operator of the aircraft shall prepare a weight
schedule showing:
(a) either the basic weight of the
aircraft, that is to say, the weight of the aircraft empty together with the
weight of unusable
fuel and unusable oil in the aircraft and of such items of
equipment as are indicated in the weight schedule, or such other weight
as may
be approved by the Governor in the case of that aircraft; and
(b) either the position of the centre of gravity of the aircraft when the
aircraft contains only the items included in the
basic weight or such other
position of the centre of gravity as may be approved by the Governor in the
case of that aircraft.
(3) Subject to article 80 of
this Order the weight schedule shall be preserved by the operator of the
aircraft until the expiration of a period of six months following the next
occasion on which the aircraft is weighed for the
purposes of this article.
Access and inspection for airworthiness purposes
19. The Governor may cause such inspections,
investigations, tests, experiments and flight trials to be made as he deems
necessary
for the purposes of this Part of this Order and any person
authorised to do so in writing by the Governor may at any reasonable
time
inspect any part of, or material intended to be incorporated in or used in
the manufacture of any part of, an aircraft
or its equipment or any document
relating thereto and may for that purpose go upon any aerodrome or enter any
aircraft factory.
PART IV
Aircraft Crew and Licensing
Composition of crew of aircraft
20. - (1) An aircraft shall not fly unless
it carries a flight crew of the number and description required by the law of
the country in which it is registered.
(2) An aircraft registered in the Territory shall
carry a flight crew adequate in number and description
to ensure the safety
of the aircraft and of at least the number and description specified in the
certificate of airworthiness
issued or rendered valid under this Order or, if
no certificate of airworthiness is required under this Order to be in force,
the certificate of airworthiness, if any, last in force under this Order in
respect of that aircraft.
(3)
(a) A flying machine registered in
the Territory and flying for the purpose of public transport having a maximum
total weight
authorised exceeding 5,700 kg shall carry not less than two
pilots as members of the flight crew thereof.
(b)
(i) Subject to sub-paragraphs (ii)
and (iii), an aeroplane registered in the Territory and flying for the
purpose of public
transport in circumstances where the aircraft commander is
required to comply with the Instrument Flight Rules and having a maximum
total weight authorised of 5,700 kg or less and powered by:
(aa) one or more turbine jets;
(bb) one or more turbine propeller engines and provided with a means of
pressurising the personnel compartments;
(cc) two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry more
than nine passengers;
(dd) two or more turbine propeller engines and certificated to carry fewer
than 10 passengers and not provided with a means
of pressurising the
personnel compartments, unless it is equipped with an autopilot which has
been approved by the Governor
for the purposes of this article and which is
serviceable on take-off; or
(ee) two or more piston engines, unless it is equipped with an autopilot
which has been approved by the Governor for the purposes
of this article and
which is serviceable on take-off;
shall carry not less than two
pilots as members of the flight crew thereof.
(ii) An aeroplane described in sub-paragraphs (i)(dd) or (i)(ee) which is
equipped with an approved autopilot shall not be
required to carry two pilots
notwithstanding that before take-off the approved autopilot is found to be
unserviceable, if the
aeroplane flies in accordance with arrangements
approved by the Governor.
(iii) An aeroplane described in sub-paragraphs (i)(cc), (dd) or (ee) which is
flying under and in accordance with the terms
of a police air operator's
certificate shall not be required to carry two pilots.
(c)
(i) Subject to sub-paragraphs (ii)
and (iii), a helicopter registered in the Territory which has a maximum total
weight authorised
of 5,700 kg or less and a maximum approved seating
configuration of nine or less which if flying for the purpose of public
transport in circumstances where the aircraft commander is required to comply
with the Instrument Flight Rules or which is flying
by night with visual
ground reference shall carry not less than two pilots as members of the
flight crew thereof unless it
is equipped with an autopilot with, at least,
altitude hold and heading mode which is serviceable on take off.
(ii) A helicopter described in sub-paragraph (c)(i) which is equipped with an
approved autopilot shall not be required to carry
two pilots notwithstanding
that before take-off the approved autopilot is found to be unserviceable, if
the helicopter flies
in accordance with arrangements approved by the
Governor.
(iii) A helicopter described in sub-paragraph (c)(i) which is flying under
and in accordance with the terms of a police air
operator's certificate shall
not be required to carry two pilots.
(4)
(a) An aircraft registered in the
Territory engaged on a flight for the purpose of public transport shall
carry:
(i) a flight navigator as a member
of the flight crew; or
(ii) navigational equipment suitable for the route to be flown;
if on the route or any diversion
therefrom, being a route or diversion planned before take-off, the aircraft
is intended to
be more than 500 nautical miles from the point of take-off
measured along the route to be flown, and to pass over part of an area
specified in Schedule 7 to this Order.
(b) The flight navigator carried in compliance with this article shall be
carried in addition to any person who is carried
in accordance with this
article to perform other duties.
(5) An aircraft registered
in the Territory which is required by article 15 of this Order to be equipped
with radio communications apparatus shall carry a flight radiotelephony
operator as a member of the flight crew.
(6) The Governor may, in the interests of safety,
direct the operator of an aircraft registered in
the Territory that all or
any aircraft operated by him, when flying in circumstances specified in the
direction, shall carry,
in addition to the flight crew required to be carried
by the provisions of this article, such additional persons as members of
the
flight crew as he may specify in the direction.
(7)
(a) This paragraph applies to any
flight for the purpose of public transport by an aircraft registered in the
Territory:
(i) on which is carried 20 or more
passengers; or
(ii) which may in accordance with its certificate of airworthiness carry more
than 35 passengers and on which at least one
passenger is carried.
(b) The crew of an aircraft on a
flight to which this paragraph applies shall include cabin attendants carried
for the purposes
of performing in the interests of the safety of passengers,
duties to be assigned by the operator or the commander of the aircraft
but
who shall not act as members of the flight crew.
(c)
(i) Subject to sub-paragraph (ii),
on a flight to which this paragraph applies, there shall be carried not less
than one cabin
attendant for every 50 or fraction of 50 passenger seats
installed in the aircraft.
(ii) The number of cabin attendants calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph
(i) need not be carried if the Governor has
granted written permission to the
operator to carry a lesser number on that flight and the operator carries the
number specified
in that permission and complies with any other terms and
conditions subject to which such permission is granted.
(8) The Governor may, in the
interests of safety, direct the operator of any aircraft registered in the
Territory that all or any aircraft operated by him when flying in
circumstances specified in the direction shall carry, in
addition to the
cabin attendants required to be carried therein by the foregoing provisions
of this article, such additional
persons as cabin attendants as he may
specify in the direction.
Members of flight crew-requirements for licence
21. - (1) Subject to the provisions of this
article, a person shall not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft
registered in the Territory unless he is the holder of an appropriate licence
granted or rendered valid under this Order.
(2) A person may within the Territory, without being
the holder of such a licence:
(a) act as a flight radiotelephony
operator if
(i) he does so as the pilot of a
glider not flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work and he
does not communicate
by radiotelephony with any air traffic control unit; or
(ii) he does so as a person being trained in an aircraft registered in the
Territory to perform duties as a member of the flight
crew of an aircraft;
and
(aa) he is authorised to operate
the radiotelephony station by the holder of the licence granted in respect of
that station
under any enactment;
(bb) messages are transmitted only for the purposes of instruction, or of the
safety or navigation of the aircraft;
(cc) messages are transmitted only on a frequency exceeding 60 MHz assigned
by the Governor for the purposes of this sub-paragraph;
(dd) the operation of the transmitter requires the use only of external
switches; and
(ee) the stability of the frequency radiated is maintained automatically by
the transmitter;
(b) subject to article 25(2) of
this Order, act as pilot in command of an aircraft for the purpose of
becoming qualified for
the grant or renewal of a pilot's licence or the
inclusion or variation of any rating in a pilot's licence if:
(i) he is at least 16 years of
age;
(ii) he is the holder of a valid medical certificate to the effect that he is
fit so to act issued by a person approved by
the Governor;
(iii) he complies with any conditions subject to which that medical
certificate was issued;
(iv) no other person is carried in the aircraft;
(v) the aircraft is not flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial
work other than aerial work which consists of
the giving of instruction in
flying or the conducting of flying tests; and
(vi) he so acts in accordance with instructions given by a person holding a
pilot's licence granted under this Order, being
a licence which includes a
flying instructor's rating or an assistant flying instructor's rating
entitling him to give instruction
in flying the type of aircraft being flown;
(c) subject to article 25(2) of
this Order, act as pilot of an aircraft in respect of which the flight crew
required to be carried
by or under this Order does not exceed one pilot for
the purpose of becoming qualified for the grant or renewal of a pilot's
licence or the inclusion or variation of any rating in a pilot's licence if:
(i) the aircraft is not flying for
the purpose of public transport or aerial work other than aerial work which
consists of the
giving of instruction in flying or the conducting of flying
tests;
(ii) he so acts in accordance with instructions given by a person holding a
pilot's licence granted under this Order, being
a licence which includes a
flying instructor's rating or an assistant flying instructor's rating
entitling him to give instruction
in flying the type of aircraft being flown;
and
(iii) the aircraft is fitted with dual controls and he is accompanied in the
aircraft by the said instructor who is seated
at the other set of controls or
the aircraft is fitted with controls designed for and capable of use by two
persons and he
is accompanied in the aircraft by the said instructor who is
seated so as to be able to use the controls;
(d) subject to article 25 (2) of
this Order, act as pilot in command of a helicopter or gyroplane at night if:
(i) he is the holder of an
appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order in all
respects save that the licence
does not include an instrument rating and he
has not within the immediately preceding 13 months carried out as pilot in
command
not less than 5 take-offs and 5 landings at a time when the
depression of the centre of the sun was not less than 12 C below the
horizon;
(ii) he so acts in accordance with instructions given by a person holding a
pilot's licence granted under this Order being
a licence which includes a
flying instructor's rating or an assistant flying instructor's rating
entitling him to give instruction
in flying the type of helicopter or
gyroplane being flown by night;
(iii) no person other than that specified in sub-paragraph (ii) above is
carried and
(iv) the helicopter or gyroplane is not flying for the purpose of public
transport or aerial work other than aerial work which
consists of the giving
of instruction in flying or the conducting of flying tests;
(e) subject to article 25(2) of
this Order, act as pilot in command of a balloon if:
(i) he is the holder of an
appropriate licence granted or rendered valid under this Order in all
respects save that he has not
within the immediately preceding 13 months
carried out as pilot in command 5 flights each of not less than 5 minutes
duration;
(ii) he so acts in accordance with instructions given by a person authorised
by the Governor to supervise flying in the type
of balloon being flown;
(iii) no person other than that specified in sub-paragraph (ii) above is
carried; and
(iv) the balloon is not flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial
work other than aerial work which consists of
the giving of instruction in
flying or the conducting of flying tests.
(3) Subject as aforesaid, a
person shall not act as a member of the flight crew required by or under this
Order to be carried in an aircraft registered in a country other than the
Territory unless:
(a) in the case of an aircraft
flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work, he is the holder
of an appropriate
licence granted or rendered valid under the law of the
country in which the aircraft is registered or the State of the operator;
or
(b) in the case of any other aircraft, he is the holder of an appropriate
licence granted or rendered valid under the law of
the country in which the
aircraft is registered or under this Order, and the Governor does not in the
particular case give
a direction to the contrary.
(4) For the purposes of this
Part of this Order a licence granted under the law of a Contracting State
other than the Territory, purporting to authorise the holder thereof to act
as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft,
not being a licence purporting
to authorise him to act as a student pilot only, shall, unless the Governor
in the particular
case gives a direction to the contrary, be deemed to be a
licence rendered valid under this Order but does not entitle the holder:
(a) to act as a member of the
flight crew of any aircraft flying for the purpose of public transport or
aerial work or on any
flight in respect of which he receives remuneration for
his services as a member of the flight crew; or
(b) in the case of a pilot's licence, to act as pilot of any aircraft flying
in controlled airspace in circumstances requiring
compliance with the
Instrument Flight Rules or to give any instruction in flying.
(5)
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions
of paragraph (1), a person may, unless the certificate of airworthiness in
force in respect
of the aircraft otherwise requires, act as pilot of an
aircraft registered in the Territory for the purpose of undergoing training
or tests for the grant or renewal of a pilot's licence or for the inclusion,
renewal or extension of a rating therein without
being the holder of an
appropriate licence, if the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (b) are
complied with.
(b)
(i) No other person shall be
carried in the aircraft or in an aircraft being towed thereby except:
(aa) a person carried as a member
of the flight crew in compliance with this Order;
(bb) a person authorised by the Governor to witness the aforesaid training or
tests or to conduct the aforesaid tests; or
(cc) if the pilot in command of the aircraft is the holder of an appropriate
licence, a person carried for the purpose of being
trained or tested as a
member of the flight crew of an aircraft.
(ii) The person acting as the
pilot of the aircraft without being the holder of an appropriate licence
either:
(aa) within the period of six
months immediately preceding was serving as a qualified pilot of an aircraft
in any of Her Majesty's
naval, military or air forces, and his physical
condition has not, so far as he is aware, so deteriorated during that period
as to render him unfit for the licence for which he intends to qualify; or
(bb) holds a pilot's, a flight navigator's or a flight engineer's licence
granted under article 22 of this Order and the purpose
of the training or
test is to enable him to qualify under this Order for the grant of a pilot's
licence or for the inclusion
of an additional type in the aircraft rating in
his licence and he acts under the supervision of a person who is the holder
of an appropriate licence.
(6) Notwithstanding
paragraph (1), a person may act as a member of the flight crew (otherwise
than as
a pilot) of an aircraft registered in the Territory for the purposes
of undergoing training or tests for the grant or renewal
of a flight
navigator's or a flight engineer's licence or for the inclusion, renewal or
extension of a rating therein, without
being the holder of an appropriate
licence if he acts under the supervision and in the presence of another
person who is the
holder of the type of licence or rating for which the
person undergoing the training or tests is being trained or tested.
(7) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a person may act
as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered
in the Territory
without being the holder of an appropriate licence if, in so doing, he is
acting in the course of his duty
as a member of any of Her Majesty's naval,
military or air forces.
(8) An appropriate licence for the purposes of this
article means a licence which entitles the holder
to perform the functions
which he undertakes in relation to the aircraft concerned and the flight on
which it is engaged.
(9) This article shall not require a licence to be
held by a person by reason of his acting as a member
of the flight crew of a
glider unless:
(a) he acts as a flight
radiotelephony operator otherwise than in accordance with paragraph
(2)(a)(i); or
(b) the flight is for the purpose of public transport or aerial work, other
than aerial work which consists of the giving of
instruction in flying or the
conducting of flying tests in a glider owned or operated by a flying club of
which the person
giving the instruction or conducting the test and the person
receiving the instruction or undergoing the test are both members.
(10) Notwithstanding
anything in this article:
(a) the holder of a licence
granted or rendered valid under this Order, being a licence endorsed to the
effect that the holder
does not satisfy in full the relevant international
standard, shall not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft
registered
in the Territory in or over the territory of a Contracting State
other than the Territory except in accordance with permission
granted by the
competent authorities of that State.
(b) the holder of a licence granted or rendered valid under the law of a
Contracting State other than the Territory, being
a licence endorsed as
aforesaid, shall not act as a member of the flight crew of any aircraft in or
over the Territory except
in accordance with permission granted by the
Governor, whether or not the licence is or is deemed to be rendered valid
under
this Order.
Grant, renewal and effect of flight crew licences
22. - (1)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (d),
the Governor shall grant licences, subject to such conditions as he thinks
fit, of any of
the classes specified in Part A of Schedule 8 to this Order
authorising the holder to act as a member of the flight crew of an
aircraft
registered in the Territory, upon his being satisfied that the applicant is a
fit person to hold the licence, and
is qualified by reason of his knowledge,
experience, competence, skill and physical and mental fitness to act in the
capacity
to which the licence relates, and for that purpose the applicant
shall furnish such evidence and undergo such examinations and
tests
(including in particular medical examinations) and undertake such courses of
training as the Governor may require of
him.
(b) A licence granted under this article shall not be valid unless it bears
thereon the ordinary signature of the holder in
ink.
(c) Subject to article 81 of this Order, a licence shall remain in force for
the period indicated in the licence, not exceeding
the period specified in
respect of a licence of that class in the said Schedule, and may be renewed
by the Governor from time
to time upon his being satisfied that the applicant
is a fit person and qualified as aforesaid. If no period is indicated in the
licence it shall remain in force, subject as aforesaid, for the lifetime of
the holder.
(d) A licence of any class shall not be granted to any person who is under
the minimum age specified for that class of licence
in Part A of the said
Schedule.
(2) The Governor may include
in a licence a rating, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, of any
of
the classes specified in Part B of the said Schedule, upon his being
satisfied that the applicant is qualified as aforesaid
to act in the capacity
to which the rating relates, and such rating shall be deemed to form part of
the licence.
(3) Subject to any conditions of the licence and to
the provisions of this Order, a licence of any
class shall entitle the holder
to perform the functions specified in respect of that licence in Part A of
the said Schedule
under the heading 'Privileges' and a rating of any class
shall entitle the holder of the licence in which such rating is included
to
perform the functions specified in respect of that rating in Part B of the
said Schedule.
Maintenance of privileges of aircraft ratings in licences
23. - (1)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraphs (b)
and (c), the holder of a pilot's licence or a flight engineer's licence shall
not be entitled
to exercise the privileges of an aircraft rating contained in
the licence on a flight unless the licence bears a valid certificate
of test
or a valid certificate of experience in respect of the rating, which
certificate shall in either case be appropriate
to the functions he is to
perform on that flight in accordance with Part C of Schedule 8 to this Order
and shall otherwise
comply with that Part.
(b) The holder of a Private Pilot's Licence (Balloons and Airships) shall be
entitled to exercise the privileges of an aircraft
rating contained in the
licence on a flight when the licence does not bear such a certificate.
(c) The holder of a Private Pilot's Licence shall not be entitled to exercise
the privileges of an aircraft rating contained
in the licence on a flight
unless the certificate of test or certificate of experience required by
sub-paragraph (a) is included
in the personal flying log book required to be
kept by him under article 28 of this Order.
(2) The holder of a flight
navigator's licence shall not be entitled to perform functions on a flight to
which article 20(4) of this Order applies unless the licence bears a valid
certificate of experience which certificate shall
be appropriate to the
functions he is to perform on that flight in accordance with Part C of the
said Schedule and shall otherwise
comply with that Part.
Maintenance of privileges of other ratings in licences
24. A person shall not be entitled to perform the
functions to which an instrument rating (aeroplanes), an instrument rating
(helicopters),
a flying instructor's rating, an assistant flying instructor's
rating, or an instrument meteorological conditions rating (aeroplanes)
relates unless his licence bears a valid certificate of test, which
certificate shall be appropriate to the functions to which
the rating relates
in accordance with Part C of Schedule 8 to this Order and shall otherwise
comply with that Part.
Medical requirements for licence holders
25. - (1)
(a) The holder of a licence
granted under article 22, other than a Flight Radiotelephony Operator's
Licence, shall not be entitled
to perform any of the functions to which his
licence relates unless it includes an appropriate valid medical certificate.
(b) Every applicant for or holder of a licence granted under article 22 shall
upon such occasions as the Governor may require
submit himself to medical
examination by a person approved by the Governor, either generally or in a
particular case or class
of cases, who shall make a report to the Governor in
such form as the Governor may require.
(c) On the basis of such medical examination, the Governor or any person
approved by him as competent to do so may issue a
medical certificate subject
to such conditions as he thinks fit to the effect that he has assessed the
holder of the licence
as fit to perform the functions to which the licence
relates, and the certificate shall, without prejudice to paragraph (2) of
this article, be valid for such period as is therein specified and shall be
deemed to form part of the licence.
(2)
(a) A person shall not be entitled
to act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in the
Territory if he knows
or suspects that his physical or mental condition
renders him temporarily or permanently unfit to perform such functions or to
act in such capacity.
(b) Every holder of a medical certificate issued under this article who:
(i) suffers any personal injury
involving incapacity to undertake his functions as a member of the flight
crew;
(ii) suffers any illness involving incapacity to undertake those functions
throughout a period of 21 days or more; or
(iii) in the case of a woman, has reason to believe that she is pregnant;
shall inform the Governor in
writing of such injury, illness or pregnancy, as soon as possible in the case
of injury or pregnancy,
and as soon as the period of 21 days has expired in
the case of illness. The medical certificate shall be deemed to be suspended
upon the occurrence of such injury or the expiry of such period of illness or
the confirmation of the pregnancy, and
(aa) in the case of injury or
illness the suspension shall cease upon the holder being medically examined
under arrangements
made by the Governor and pronounced fit to resume his
functions as a member of the flight crew or upon the Governor exempting,
subject to such conditions as he thinks fit, the holder from the requirement
of a medical examination; and
(bb) in the case of pregnancy, the suspension may be lifted by the Governor
for such period and subject to such conditions
as he thinks fit and shall
cease upon the holder being medically examined under arrangements made by the
Governor after the
pregnancy has ended and pronounced fit to resume her
functions as a member of the flight crew.
Miscellaneous licensing provisions
26. - (1) A person who, on the last occasion
when he took a test for the purposes of articles 23 or 24, failed that test
shall not be entitled to fly in the capacity for which that test would have
qualified him had he passed it.
(2) Nothing in this Order shall prohibit the holder
of a pilot's licence from acting as pilot of an
aircraft certificated for
single pilot operation when, with the permission of the Governor he is
testing any person for the
purposes of articles 22(1), 22(2), 23 or 24,
notwithstanding that the type of aircraft in which the test is conducted is
not
specified in an aircraft rating included in his licence or that the
licence or personal flying log book, as the case may be, does
not include a
valid certificate of test, experience or revalidation in respect of the type
of aircraft.
(3) Where any provision of Part C of Schedule 8 or
Part B of Schedule 10 to this Order permits a test
to be conducted in a
flight simulator approved by the Governor, that approval may be granted
subject to such conditions as
the Governor thinks fit.
(4) Without prejudice to any other provision of this
Order the Governor may, for the purpose of this
Part of this Order, either
absolutely or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit:
(a) approve any course of training
or instruction;
(b) authorise a person to conduct such examinations or tests as he may
specify; and
(c) approve a person to provide any course of training or instruction.
Validation of Licences
27. The Governor may issue a certificate of validation
rendering valid for the purpose of this Order any flight crew licence granted
under the law of any country other than the Territory. A certificate of
validation may be issued subject to such conditions
and for such periods as
the Governor thinks fit.
Personal flying log book
28. - (1) Every member of the flight crew of
an aircraft registered in the Territory and every person who engages in
flying for the purpose of qualifying for the grant or renewal of a licence
under this Order shall keep a personal flying log
book in which the following
particulars shall be recorded:
(a) the name and address of the
holder of the log book;
(b) particulars of the holder's licence (if any) to act as a member of the
flight crew of an aircraft; and
(c) the name and address of his employer (if any).
(2) Particulars of each
flight during which the holder of the log book acted either as a member of
the
flight crew of an aircraft or for the purpose of qualifying for the grant
or renewal of a licence under this Order, as the case
may be, shall be
recorded in the log book at the end of each flight or as soon thereafter as
is reasonably practicable, including:
(a) the date, the places at which
the holder embarked on and disembarked from the aircraft and the time spent
during the course
of a flight when he was acting in either capacity;
(b) the type and registration marks of the aircraft;
(c) the capacity in which the holder acted in flight;
(d) particulars of any special condition under which the flight was
conducted, including night flying and instrument flying;
and
(e) particulars of any test or examination undertaken whilst in flight.
(3) For the purposes of this
article, a helicopter shall be deemed to be in flight from the moment the
helicopter first moves under its own power for the purpose of taking off
until the rotors are next stopped.
(4) Particulars of any test or examination undertaken
whilst in a flight simulator shall be recorded
in the log book, including:
(a) the date of the test or
examination;
(b) the type of simulator;
(c) the capacity in which the holder acted; and
(d) the nature of the test or examination.
Instruction in flying
29. - (1) A person shall not give any
instruction in flying to which this article applies unless:
(a) he holds a licence, granted or
rendered valid under this Order entitling him to act as pilot in command of
the aircraft
for the purpose and in the circumstances under which the
instruction is to be given; and
(b) his licence includes an instructor's rating or an assistant flying
instructor's rating entitling the holder to give the
instruction.
(2) Subject to paragraph
(3), this article applies to instruction in flying given to any person flying
or about to fly a flying machine or glider for the purpose of becoming
qualified for:
(a) the grant of a pilot's
licence; and
(b) the inclusion or variation of any rating in his licence.
(3) This article shall not
apply to any instruction in flying given to a person for the purpose of
becoming
qualified for the inclusion in his licence of an aircraft rating
entitling him to act as pilot of a multi-engined aircraft, or
an aircraft of
any class appearing in column 4 of the Table in Part A of Schedule 2 to this
Order, if that person has previously
been entitled under this Order or
qualified in any of Her Majesty's naval, military or air forces, to act as
pilot of multi-engined
aircraft or an aircraft of that class, as the case may
be.
Glider pilot-minimum age
30. A person under the age of 16 years shall not act as
pilot in command of a glider.
PART V
Operation of Aircraft
Operations manual
31. - (1)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
this article shall apply to public transport aircraft registered in the
Territory except aircraft
used for the time being solely for flights not
intended to exceed 60 minutes in duration, which are either:
(i) flights solely for training
persons to perform duties in an aircraft; or
(ii) flights intended to begin and end at the same aerodrome.
(b) This article shall not apply
to an aircraft flying or intended by the operator of the aircraft to fly
solely under and in
accordance with the terms of a police air operator's
certificate.
(2)
(a) The operator of every aircraft
to which this article applies shall:
(i) make available to each member
of his operating staff an operations manual;
(ii) ensure that each copy of the operations manual is kept up to date; and
(iii) ensure that on each flight every member of the crew has access to a
copy of every part of the operations manual which
is relevant to his duties
on the flight.
(b)
(i) Subject to sub-paragraph (ii),
each operations manual shall contain all such information and instructions as
may be necessary
to enable the operating staff to perform their duties as
such including in particular information and instructions relating to
the
matters specified in Part A of Schedule 10 to this Order.
(ii) The operations manual shall not be required to contain any information
or instructions available in a flight manual accessible
to the persons by
whom the information or instructions may be required.
(3)
(a) An aircraft to which this
article applies shall not fly unless, not less than 30 days prior to such
flight, the operator
of the aircraft has furnished to the Governor a copy of
the whole of the operations manual for the time being in effect in respect
of
the aircraft.
(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (c), any amendments or additions to the
operations manual shall be furnished to the Governor by
the operator before
or immediately after they come into effect.
(c) Where an amendment or addition relates to the operation of an aircraft to
which the operations manual did not previously
relate, that aircraft shall
not fly for the purpose of public transport until the amendment or addition
has been furnished
to the Governor.
(d) Without prejudice to the foregoing sub-paragraphs, the operator shall
make such amendments or additions to the operations
manual as the Governor
may require for the purpose of ensuring the safety of the aircraft or of
persons or property carried
therein or the safety, efficiency or regularity
of air navigation.
(4) For the purposes of this
article, article 32, article 58 of and Schedule 10 to this Order,
"operating
staff" means the servants and agents employed by the
operator, whether or not as members of the crew of the aircraft, to
ensure
that the flights of the aircraft are conducted in a safe manner, and includes
an operator who himself performs those
functions.
(5) If in the course of a flight on which the
equipment specified in Scale O in paragraph 5 of Schedule
4 hereto is
required to be provided the said equipment becomes unserviceable, the
aircraft shall be operated on the remainder
of that flight in accordance with
any relevant instructions in the operations manual.
Police operations manual
32. - (1) This article shall apply to
aircraft flying, or intended by the operator, of the aircraft to fly, under
and
in accordance with the terms of a police air operator's certificate.
(2) An aircraft to which this article applies shall
not fly except under and in accordance with the
terms of Part I and Part II
of a police operations manual, Part I of which shall have been approved in
respect of the aircraft
by the Governor.
(3)
(a) The operator of every aircraft
to which this article applies shall:
(i) make available to each member
of its operating staff a police operations manual;
(ii) ensure that each copy of the operations manual is kept up to date; and
(iii) ensure that on each flight every member of the crew has access to a
copy of every part of the operations manual which
is relevant to his duties
on the flight.
(b) Each police operations manual
shall contain all such information and instructions as may be necessary to
enable the operating
staff to perform their duties as such.
(4) The Governor may approve
Part I of the police operations manual for the purposes of this article
either absolutely or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.
(5)
(a) An aircraft to which this
article applies shall not fly unless, not less than 30 days prior to such
flight, the operator
of the aircraft has furnished to the Governor a copy of
Part II of the police operations manual for the time being in effect in
respect of the aircraft.
(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (c), any amendments or additions to Part II of
the police operations manual shall be furnished
to the Governor by the
operator before or immediately after they come into effect.
(c) Where an amendment or addition relates to the operation of an aircraft to
which the police operations manual did not previously
relate, that aircraft
shall not fly in the service of the police authority under and in accordance
with the terms of a police
operator's certificate until the amendment or
addition has been furnished to the Governor.
(6) Without prejudice to the
foregoing paragraphs, the operator shall make such amendments or additions
to
the police operations manual as the Governor may require for the purpose of
ensuring the safety of the aircraft, or of persons
or property carried
therein, or the safety, efficiency or regularity of air navigation.
(7) For the purposes of this article "operating
staff" has the meaning ascribed to it in
article 31(4) of this Order.
Training manual
33. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the
operator of every aircraft registered in the Territory and flying for the
purpose
of public transport shall:
(a) make a training manual
available to every person appointed by the operator to give or to supervise
the training, experience,
practice or periodical tests required under article
34(3) of this Order; and
(b) ensure that each copy of that training manual is kept up to date.
(2) This article shall not
apply to aircraft flying, or intended by the operator of the aircraft to fly,
solely under and in accordance with the terms of a police air operator's
certificate.
(3) Each training manual shall contain all such
information and instructions as may be necessary to
enable a person appointed
by the operator to give or to supervise the training, experience, practice
and periodical tests required
under article 34(3) of this Order to perform his
duties as such including in particular information and instruction relating
to the matters specified in Part C of Schedule 10 to this Order.
(4)
(a) An aircraft to which this
article applies shall not fly unless not less than 30 days prior to such
flight the operator of
the aircraft has furnished to the Governor a copy of
the whole of his training manual relating to the crew of that aircraft.
(b) Subject to sub-paragraph (c), any amendments or additions to the training
manual shall be furnished to the Governor by
the operator before or
immediately after they come into effect.
(c) Where an amendment or addition relates to training, experience, practice
or periodical tests on an aircraft to which the
training manual did not
previously relate, that aircraft shall not fly for the purpose of public
transport until the amendment
or addition has been furnished to the Governor.
(d) Without prejudice to the foregoing sub-paragraphs, the operator shall
make such amendments or additions to the training
manual as the Governor may
require for the purpose of ensuring the safety of the aircraft, or of persons
or property carried
therein, or the safety, efficiency or regularity of air
navigation.
Public transport-operator's responsibilities
34. - (1) The operator of an aircraft
registered in the Territory shall not permit the aircraft to fly for the
purpose
of public transport without first:
(a) designating from among the
flight crew a pilot to be the commander of the aircraft for the flight;
(b) satisfying himself by every reasonable means that the aeronautical radio
stations and navigational aids serving the intended
route or any planned
diversion therefrom are adequate for the safe navigation of the aircraft; and
(c) subject to sub-paragraph (2) hereof, satisfying himself by every
reasonable means that every place (whether or not an aerodrome)
at which it
is intended to take off or land and any alternate place (whether or not an
aerodrome) at which a landing may be
made are suitable for the purpose and in
particular that they will be adequately manned and equipped at the time at
which it
is reasonably estimated such a take-off or landing will be made
(including such manning and equipment as is specified in regulation
16 in
Schedule 14 to this Order) to ensure so far as practicable the safety of the
aircraft and its passengers.
(2) Without prejudice to any
conditions imposed pursuant to article 6 of this Order, the operator of an
aircraft shall not be required for the purposes of this article to satisfy himself
as to the adequacy of fire-fighting, search,
rescue or other services which
are required only after the occurrence of an accident.
(3) The operator of an aircraft registered in the
Territory shall not permit any person to be a member
of the crew thereof
during any flight for the purpose of public transport (except a flight for
the sole purpose of training
persons to perform duties in aircraft) unless:
(a) such person has had the
training, experience, practice and periodical tests specified in Part B of
Schedule 10 to this Order
in respect of the duties which he is to perform;
and
(b) the operator has satisfied himself that such person is competent to
perform his duties, and in particular to use the equipment
provided in the
aircraft for that purpose.
(4) The operator shall
maintain, preserve, produce and furnish information respecting records
relating
to the matters specified in paragraph (3) in accordance with Part B
of the said Schedule 10.
(5) The operator of an aircraft registered in the
Territory shall not permit any member of the flight
crew thereof, during any
flight for the purpose of the public transport of passengers, to simulate
emergency manoeuvres and
procedures which the operator has reason to believe
will adversely affect the flight characteristics of the aircraft.
Loading-public transport aircraft and suspended loads
35. - (1) The operator of an aircraft
registered in the Territory shall not cause or permit it to be loaded for a
flight
for the purpose of public transport, or any load to be suspended
therefrom, except under the supervision of a person whom he has
caused to be
furnished with written instructions as to the distribution and securing of
the load so as to ensure that:
(a) the load may safely be carried
on the flight; and
(b) any conditions subject to which the certificate of airworthiness in force
in respect of the aircraft was issued or rendered
valid, being conditions
relating to the loading of the aircraft, are complied with.
(2)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
the instruction shall indicate the weight of the aircraft prepared for
service, that is to
say the aggregate of the weight of the aircraft (shown in
the weight schedule referred to in article 18 of this Order) and the
weight
of such additional items in or on the aircraft as the operator thinks fit to
include; and the instructions shall indicate
the additional items included in
the weight of the aircraft prepared for service, and show the position of the
centre of gravity
of the aircraft at that weight.
(b) Sub-paragraph (a) shall not apply in relation to a flight if:
(i) the aircraft's maximum total
weight authorised does not exceed 1150 kg;
(ii) the aircraft's maximum total weight authorised does not exceed 2730 kg
and the flight is intended not to exceed 60 minutes
in duration and is
either:
(aa) a flight solely for training
persons to perform duties in an aircraft; or
(bb) a flight intended to begin and end at the same aerodrome; or
(iii) the aircraft is a helicopter
the maximum total weight authorised of which does not exceed 3000 kg, and the
total seating
capacity of which does not exceed five persons.
(3) The operator of an
aircraft shall not cause or permit it to be loaded in contravention of the
instructions
referred to in paragraph (1).
(4)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
the person supervising the loading of the aircraft shall, before the
commencement of any such
flight, prepare and sign a load sheet in duplicate
conforming to the requirements specified in regulation 2 in Schedule 14 to
this Order, and shall (unless he is himself the commander of the aircraft)
submit the load sheet for examination by the commander
of the aircraft who
shall sign his name thereon.
(b) The requirements of sub-paragraph (a) shall not apply if:
(i) the load and the distributing
and securing thereof upon the next intended flight are to be unchanged from
the previous flight
and the commander of the aircraft makes and signs an
endorsement to that effect upon the load sheet for the previous flight,
indicating the date of the endorsement, the place of departure upon the next
intended flight and the next intended place of
destination; or
(ii) paragraph (2)(a) does not apply in relation to the flight.
(5)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
one copy of the load sheet shall be carried in the aircraft when article 76
of this Order
so requires until the flights to which it relates have been
completed and one copy of that load sheet and of the instructions
referred to
in this article shall be preserved by the operator until the expiration of a
period of six months thereafter and
shall not be carried in the aircraft.
(b) In the case of an aeroplane of which the maximum total weight authorised
does not exceed 2730 kg, or a helicopter, if it
is not reasonably practicable
for the copy of the load sheet to be kept on the ground it may be carried in
the aeroplane or
helicopter, as the case may be, in a container approved by
the Governor for that purpose.
(6) The operator of an
aircraft registered in the Territory and flying for the purpose of the public
transport of passengers shall not cause or permit baggage to be carried in
the passenger compartment of the aircraft unless such
baggage can be properly
secured and, in the case of an aircraft capable of seating more than 30
passengers, such baggage (other
than baggage carried in accordance with a
permission issued pursuant to article 45(2)(d) of this Order) shall not
exceed the
capacity of the spaces in the passenger compartment approved by
the Governor for the purpose of stowing baggage.
Public transport-operating conditions
36. - (1) An aircraft registered in the
Territory shall not fly for the purpose of public transport, except for the
sole purpose of training persons to perform duties in aircraft unless the
relevant requirements specified in regulations 3 to
13 inclusive in Schedule
14 to this Order in respect of its weight and related performance and flight
in specified meteorological
conditions or at night are complied with.
(2)
(a) The assessment of the ability
of an aircraft to comply with paragraph (1) shall be based on the information
as to its performance
contained in the certificate of airworthiness relating
to the aircraft.
(b) In the event of the information given therein being insufficient for that
purpose such assessment shall be based on the
best information available to
the commander of the aircraft.
(3) A flying machine
registered in the Territory when flying over water for the purpose of public
transport
shall fly, except as may be necessary for the purpose of take-off
or landing, at such an altitude as would enable the aircraft:
(a) if it has one engine only, in
the event of the failure of that engine; or
(b) if it has more than one engine, in the event of the failure of one of
those engines and with the remaining engine or engines
operating within the
maximum continuous power conditions specified in the certificate of
airworthiness relating to the aircraft;
to reach a place at which it can safely land at a
height sufficient to enable it to do so.
(4)
(a) Without prejudice to paragraph
(3), an aeroplane in respect of which there is in force under this Order a
certificate of
airworthiness designating the aeroplane as being of
performance group X shall not fly over water for the purpose of public
transport so as to be more than 60 minutes flying time from the nearest
shore, unless the aeroplane has more than 2 power units.
(b) For the purposes of this paragraph, flying time shall be calculated at
normal cruising speed with one power unit inoperative.
(5)
(a) Without prejudice to paragraph
(3), a helicopter in respect of which there is in force under this Order a
certificate of
airworthiness designating the helicopter as being of
performance group B (in this paragraph call 'a group B helicopter') shall
not
fly over water for the purpose of public transport so as to be more than 20
seconds flying time from a point from which
it can make an autorotative
descent to land suitable for an emergency landing (in this paragraph called
'the specified circumstances')
unless it is equipped with apparatus approved
by the Governor enabling it to land safely on water (in this paragraph called
"the required apparatus").
(b) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), a group B helicopter equipped with
the required apparatus, which is flying under and
in accordance with the
terms of an air operator's certificate but not under and in accordance with
the terms of a police air
operator's certificate, shall not fly in the
specified circumstances on any flight for more than three minutes except with
the permission in writing of the Governor and in accordance with any
conditions subject to which that permission may have been
granted.
(c) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), a group B helicopter equipped with
the required apparatus which is flying under and
in accordance with the terms
of a police air operator's certificate on which is carried any passenger who
is not a permitted
passenger, shall not fly in the specified circumstances on
any flight for more than 20 minutes.
(d) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), a group B helicopter equipped with
the required apparatus which is flying under and
in accordance with the terms
of a police air operator's certificate on which no passenger is carried other
than a permitted
passenger, shall not fly over water on any flight for more
than 10 minutes so as to be more than 5 minutes from a point from which
it
can make an autorotative descent to land suitable for an emergency landing.
(e) For the purposes of this paragraph flying time shall be calculated on the
assumption that a helicopter is flying in still
air at the speed specified in
the certificate of airworthiness in force in respect of the helicopter as the
speed for compliance
with regulations governing flights over water.
(6)
(a) Without prejudice to paragraph
(3), a helicopter in respect of which there is in force under this Order a
certificate of
airworthiness designating the helicopter as being of
performance group A2 (in this paragraph called 'a group A2 helicopter'),
which is flying under and in accordance with the terms of an air operator's
certificate but not under and in accordance with
the terms of a police air
operator's certificate, shall not fly over water for the purpose of public
transport for more than
15 minutes during any flight unless it is equipped
with apparatus approved by the Governor enabling it to land safely on water
(in this paragraph called "the required apparatus").
(b) Without prejudice to paragraph (3), a group A2 helicopter not equipped
with the required apparatus which is flying under
and in accordance with the
terms of a police air operator's certificate on which any passenger is
carried who is not a permitted
passenger shall not fly over any water on any
flight for more than 15 minutes.
(7) Notwithstanding the
provisions of paragraph (1), a helicopter in respect of which there is in
force
under this Order a certificate of airworthiness designating the
helicopter as being of performance group A or performance group
A (Restricted)
may fly for the purpose of public transport in accordance with the weight and
related performance requirements
prescribed for helicopters designated as
being of:
(a) performance group A
(Restricted) in the case of a helicopter designated as being of performance
group A if:
(i) the maximum total weight
authorised of the helicopter is less the 5700 kg; and
(ii) the total number of passengers carried on the helicopter does not exceed
15; or
(b) performance group B if:
(i) the maximum total weight authorised
of the helicopter is less than 2730 kg; and
(ii) the total number of passengers carried does not exceed 9.
(8) For the purposes of this
article a "permitted passenger" means:
(a) a police officer;
(b) an employee of the police authority;
(c) a medical attendant;
(d) the holder of a valid pilot's licence who intends to act as a member of
the flight crew of an aircraft flying under and
in accordance with the terms
of a police air operator's certificate and who is being carried for the
purpose of training or
familiarisation; or
(e) such other person being carried for purposes connected with police
operations as may be permitted in writing by the Governor.
Public transport operations at night or in
instrument meteorological conditions by single engined aeroplanes not
registered
in the Territory
37. An aeroplane which is not registered in the
Territory and is powered by one engine only shall not fly for the purpose of
public
transport at night or when the cloud ceiling or visibility prevailing
at the aerodrome of departure and forecast for the estimated
time of landing
at the aerodrome at which it is intended to land and at any alternate
aerodrome are less than 1,000 feet and
1 nautical mile respectively.
Public transport aircraft registered in the
Territory - aerodrome operating minima
38. - (1) This article shall apply to public
transport aircraft registered in the Territory.
(2)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
the operator of every aircraft to which this article applies shall establish
and include in
the operations manual or the police operations manual relating
to the aircraft the particulars (in this sub-paragraph called "the
said
particulars") of the aerodrome operating minima appropriate to every
aerodrome of intended departure or landing and
every alternate aerodrome.
(b) in relation to any flight wherein:
(i) neither an operations manual
nor a police operations manual is required pursuant to article 31(2)(a) or
32(3)(a) respectively
of this Order; or
(ii) it is not practicable to include the said particulars in the operations
manual or the police operations manual;
the operator of the said aircraft
shall, prior to the commencement of the flight, cause to be furnished in
writing to the commander
of the aircraft the said particulars calculated in
accordance with the required data and instructions (as defined in
sub-paragraph
(c)(i)) and the operator shall cause a copy of the said
particulars to be retained outside the aircraft for a minimum period of
three
months.
(c)
(i) The operator of every aircraft
to which this article applies for which an operations manual or a police
operations manual
is required pursuant to article 31(2)(a) or 32(3)(a)
respectively of this Order, shall include in that operations manual such
data
and instructions (in this article called "the required data and
instructions") as will enable the commander
of the aircraft to calculate
the aerodrome operating minima appropriate to aerodromes the use of which
cannot reasonably have
been foreseen by the operator prior to the
commencement of the flight.
(ii) The operator of every such aircraft to which this article applies for
which neither an operations manual nor a police
operations manual is required
pursuant to article 31(2)(a) or 32(3)(a) respectively of this Order shall,
prior to the commencement
of the flight, cause to be furnished in writing to
the commander of the aircraft the required data and instructions, and the
operator shall cause a copy of the required data and instructions to be
retained outside the aircraft for a minimum period of
three months.
(3) The specified aerodrome
operating minima shall not permit a landing or take-off in circumstances
where the relevant aerodrome operating minima declared by the competent
authority would prohibit it, unless that authority otherwise
permits in
writing.
(4) In establishing aerodrome operating minima for
the purposes of this article the operator of the
aircraft shall take into
account the following matters:
(a) the type and performance and
handling characteristics of the aircraft and any relevant conditions in its
certificate of
airworthiness;
(b) the composition of its crew;
(c) the physical characteristics of the relevant aerodrome and its
surroundings;
(d) the dimensions of the runways which may be selected for use; and
(e) whether or not there are in use at the relevant aerodrome any aids,
visual or otherwise, to assist aircraft in approach,
landing or take-off,
being aids which the crew of the aircraft are trained and equipped to use; the
nature of any such aids
that are in use; and the procedures for approach,
landing and take-off which may be adopted according to the existence or
absence
of such aids;
and shall establish in relation to each runway which
may be selected for use such aerodrome operating minima as are appropriate
to
each set of circumstances which can reasonably be expected.
(5) An aircraft to which this article applies shall
not commence a flight at a time when:
(a) the cloud ceiling or the
runway visual range at the aerodrome of departure is less than the relevant
minimum specified for
take-off; or
(b) according to the information available to the commander of the aircraft
it would not be able, without contravening paragraphs
(6) or (7), to land at
the aerodrome of intended destination at the estimated time of arrival there
and at any alternate aerodrome
at any time at which according to a reasonable
estimate the aircraft would arrive there.
(6) An aircraft to which
article 31 of this Order applies, when making a descent to an aerodrome,
shall
not descend from a height of 1000 ft or more above the aerodrome to a
height less than 1000 ft above the aerodrome if the relevant
runway visual
range at the aerodrome is at the time less than the specified minimum for
landing.
(7) An aircraft to which this article applies, when
making a descent to an aerodrome, shall not:
(a) continue an approach to
landing at any aerodrome by flying below the relevant specified decision
height; or
(b) descend below the relevant specified minimum descent height;
unless in either case from such height the specified
visual reference for landing is established and is maintained.
(8) If, according to the information available, an
aircraft would as regards any flight be required
by the Rules of the Air to
be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules at the aerodrome of
intended landing, the
commander of the aircraft shall select prior to
take-off an alternate aerodrome unless no aerodrome suitable for that purpose
is available.
(9) In this article "specified" in relation
to aerodrome operating minima means such particulars
of aerodrome operating
minima as have been specified by the operator in, or are ascertainable by
reference to, the operations
manual relating to that aircraft, or furnished
in writing to the commander of the aircraft by the operator pursuant to
sub-paragraphs
(2)(b) or (2)(c)(ii).
Public transport aircraft not registered in the
Territory - aerodrome operating minima
39. - (1) This article shall apply to public
transport aircraft registered in a country other than the Territory.
(2) An aircraft to which this article applies shall
not fly in or over the Territory unless the operator
thereof has made
available to the flight crew aerodrome operating minima which comply with
paragraph (3) in respect of every
aerodrome at which it is intended to land
or take off and every alternate aerodrome.
(3) The aerodrome operating minima provided in
accordance with paragraph (2) shall be no less restrictive
than either:
(a) minima calculated in
accordance with the notified method for calculating aerodrome operating
minima; or
(b) minima which comply with the law of the country in which the aircraft is
registered,
whichever, are the more restrictive.
(4)
(a) An aircraft to which this
article applies shall not:
(i) conduct a Category II,
Category IIIA or Category IIIB approach and landing; or
(ii) takeoff when the relevant runway visual range is less than 150 metres,
otherwise than under and in accordance with the
terms of an approval granted
by the Governor.
(b) An approval granted pursuant
to sub-paragraph (a) shall be in writing and may be granted subject to such
conditions as the
Governor thinks fit.
(5) An aircraft to which
this article applies shall not take off or land at an aerodrome in the
Territory
in contravention of the specified aerodrome operating minima.
(6) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs
(4) and (5), an aircraft to which this article
applies, when making a descent
to an aerodrome, shall not descend from a height of 1000 feet or more above
the aerodrome to
a height of less than 1000 feet above the aerodrome if the
relevant runway visual range at the aerodrome is at the time less than
the
specified minimum for landing.
(7) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraphs
(4) and (5), an aircraft to which this article
applies, when making a descent
to an aerodrome, shall not:
(a) continue an approach to
landing at any aerodrome by flying below the relevant specified decision
height; or
(b) descend below the relevant specified minimum descent height, unless in
either case from such height the specified visual
reference for landing is
established and is maintained.
(8) In this article:
(a) "specified" means specified
by the operator in the aerodrome operating minima made available to the
flight crew
pursuant to paragraph (2);
(b) "a Category II approach and landing" means a landing following
a precision approach using an Instrument Landing
System or Microwave Landing
System with:
(i) a decision height lower than
200 feet but not less than 100 feet; and
(ii) a runway visual range of not less than 300 metres;
(c) "a Category IIIA approach
and landing" means landing following a precision approach using an
Instrument Landing
System or Microwave Landing System with:
(i) a decision height lower than
100 feet; and
(ii) a runway visual range of not less than 200 metres; and
(d) "a Category IIIB approach
and landing" means a landing following a precision approach using an
Instrument Landing
System or Microwave Landing System with:
(i) a decision height lower than
50 feet or no decision height; and
(ii) a runway visual range less than 200 metre but not less than 75 metres.
Non-public transport aircraft - aerodrome
operating minima
40. - (1) This article shall apply to any
aircraft which is not a public transport aircraft.
(2) An aircraft to which this article applies when
making a descent at an aerodrome to a runway in
respect of which there is a
notified instrument approach procedure shall not descend from a height of
1000 ft or more above
the aerodrome to a height less than 1000 ft above the
aerodrome if the relevant runway visual range for that runway is at the
time
less than the specified minimum for landing.
(3) An aircraft to which this article applies when
making a descent to a runway in respect of which
there is a notified
instrument approach procedure shall not:
(a) continue an approach to
landing on such a runway by flying below the relevant specified decision
height; or
(b) descend below the relevant specified minimum descent height;
unless in either case from such height the specified
visual reference for landing is established and is maintained.
(4) In this article "specified" in relation
to aerodrome operating minima means such particulars
of aerodrome operating
minima as have been notified in respect of the aerodrome or if the relevant
minima have not been notified
such minima as are ascertainable by reference
to the notified method for calculating aerodrome operating minima.
Pilots to remain at controls
41. - (1)
(a) The commander of a flying
machine or glider registered in the Territory shall cause one pilot to remain
at the controls
at all times while it is in flight.
(b) If the flying machine or glider is required by or under this Order to
carry two pilots, the commander shall cause both
pilots to remain at the
controls during take-off and landing.
(c) If the flying machine or glider carries two or more pilots (whether or
not it is required to do so) and is engaged on a
flight for the purpose of
the public transport of passengers, the commander shall remain at the
controls during take-off and
landing.
(2) Each pilot at the
controls shall be secured in his seat by either a safety belt with or without
one diagonal shoulder strap, or a safety harness except that during take-off
and landing a safety harness shall be worn if it
is required by article 14 of
this Order to be provided.
Wearing of survival suits by crew
42. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), each
member of the crew of an aircraft registered in the Territory shall wear a
survival suit if such a suit is required by article 14 of this Order to be
carried.
(2) This article shall not apply to any member of the
crew of such an aircraft flying under and in
accordance with the terms of a
police air operator's certificate.
Pre-flight action by commander of aircraft
43. The commander of an aircraft registered in the
Territory shall reasonably satisfy himself before the aircraft takes off:
(a) that the flight can safely be
made, taking into account the latest information available as to the route
and aerodrome to
be used, the weather reports and forecasts available and any
alternative course of action which can be adopted in case the flight
cannot
be completed as planned;
(b)
(i) that the equipment (including
radio apparatus) required by or under this Order to be carried in the
circumstances of the
intended flight is carried and is in a fit condition for
use; or
(ii) that the flight may commence under and in accordance with the terms of a
permission granted to the operator pursuant to
article 16 of this Order;
(c) that the aircraft is in every
way fit for the intended flight, and that where a certificate of maintenance
review is required
by article 10(1) of this Order to be in force, it is in
force and will not cease to be in force during the intended flight;
(d) that the load carried by the aircraft is of such weight, and is so
distributed and secured, that it may safely be carried
on the intended
flight;
(e) in the case of a flying machine or airship, that sufficient fuel, oil and
engine coolant (if required) are carried for
the intended flight, and that a
safe margin has been allowed for contingencies, and, in the case of a flight
for the purpose
of public transport, that the instructions in the operations
manual relating to fuel, oil and engine coolant have been complied
with;
(f) in the case of an airship or balloon, that sufficient ballast is carried
for the intended flight;
(g) in the case of a flying machine, that having regard to the performance of
the flying machine in the conditions to be expected
on the intended flight,
and to any obstructions at the places of departure and intended destination
and on the intended route,
it is capable of safely taking off, reaching and
maintaining a safe height thereafter and making a safe landing at the place
of intended destination; and
(h) that any pre-flight check system established by the operator and set
forth in the operations manual or elsewhere has been
complied with by each
member of the crew of the aircraft.
Passenger briefing by commander
44. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the
commander of an aircraft registered in the Territory shall take all reasonable
steps to ensure:
(a) before the aircraft takes off
on any flight, that all passengers are made familiar with the position and
method of use of
emergency exits, safety belts (with diagonal shoulder strap
where required to be carried), safety harnesses and (where required
to be
carried) oxygen equipment, lifejackets and the floor path lighting system and
all other devices required by or under
this Order and intended for use by
passengers individually in the case of an emergency occurring to the
aircraft; and
(b) that in an emergency during a flight, all passengers are instructed in
the emergency action which they should take.
(2) This article shall not
apply to the commander of an aircraft registered in the Territory in relation
to a flight under and in accordance with the terms of a police air operator's
certificate.
Public transport of passengers - additional duties of commander
45. - (1) This article applies to flights
for the purpose of the public transport of passengers by aircraft registered
in the Territory other than flights under and in accordance with the terms of
a police air operator's certificate.
(2) In relation to every flight to which this article
applies the commander of the aircraft shall:
(a)
(i) subject to sub-paragraph (iii),
if the aircraft is not a seaplane but is intended in the course of the flight
to reach a
point more than 30 minutes flying time (while flying in still air
at the speed specified in the relevant certificate of airworthiness
as the
speed for compliance with regulations governing flights over water) from the
nearest land, take all reasonable steps
to ensure that before take-off all
passengers are given a demonstration of the method of use of the lifejackets
required by
or under this Order for the use of passengers;
(ii) subject to sub-paragraph (iii), if the aircraft is not a seaplane but is
required by article 20(7) of this Order to carry
cabin attendants, take all
reasonable steps to ensure that, before the aircraft takes off on a flight:
(aa) which is intended to proceed
beyond gliding distance from land; or
(bb) on which in the event of any emergency occurring during the take-off or
during the landing at the intended destination
or any likely alternate
destination it is reasonably possible that the aircraft would be forced to
land onto water;
all passengers are given a
demonstration of the method of use of the lifejackets required by or under
this Order for the use
of passengers;
(iii) where the only requirement to give such a demonstration arises because
it is reasonably possible that the aircraft would
be forced to land onto
water at one or more of the likely alternate destinations the demonstration
need not be given until
after the decision has been taken to divert to such a
destination;
(b) if the aircraft is a seaplane,
take all reasonable steps to ensure that before the aircraft takes off all
passengers are
given a demonstration of the method of use of the equipment
referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph;
(c) before the aircraft takes off, and before it lands, take all reasonable
steps to ensure that the crew of the aircraft are
properly secured in their
seats and that any persons carried in compliance with article 20(7) of this
Order are properly secured
in seats which shall be in a passenger compartment
and which shall be so situated that those persons can readily assist
passengers;
(d) from the moment when, after the embarkation of its passengers for the
purpose of taking off, it first moves until after
it has taken off, and
before it lands until it comes to rest for the purpose of the disembarkation
of its passengers, and whenever
by reason of turbulent air or any emergency
occurring during the flight he considers the precaution necessary:
(i) take all reasonable steps to
ensure that all passengers of 2 years of age or more are properly secured in
their seats by
safety belts (with diagonal shoulder strap, where required to
be carried) or safety harnesses and that all passengers under the
age of 2
years are properly secured by means of a child restraint device; and
(ii) take all reasonable steps to ensure that those items of baggage in the
passenger compartment which he reasonably considers
ought by virtue of their
size, weight or nature to be properly secured are properly secured and, in the
case of an aircraft
capable of seating more than 30 passengers, that such
baggage is either stowed in the passenger compartment stowage spaces approved
by the Governor for the purpose or carried in accordance with the terms of a
written permission granted by the Governor which
permission may be granted
subject to such conditions as the Governor thinks fit;
(e) in the case of aircraft in
respect of which a certificate of airworthiness was first issued (whether in
the Territory or
elsewhere) on or after 1st January 1989 except in a case
where a pressure greater than 700 hectopascals is maintained in all passenger
and crew compartments throughout the flight, take all reasonable steps to
ensure that:
(i) before the aircraft reaches
flight level 100 the method of use of the oxygen provided in the aircraft in
compliance with
the requirements of article 14 of this Order is demonstrated
to all passengers;
(ii) when flying above flight level 120 all passengers and cabin attendants
are recommended to use oxygen; and
(iii) during any period when the aircraft is flying above flight level 100
oxygen is used by all the flight crew of the aircraft.
(f) in the case of aircraft in
respect of which a certificate of airworthiness was first issued (whether in
the Territory or
elsewhere) prior to 1st January 1989, except in the case
where a pressure greater than 700 hectopascals is maintained in all passenger
and crew compartments throughout the flight, take all reasonable steps to
ensure that:
(i)
(aa) before the aircraft reaches
flight level 130 of the method of use of the oxygen provided in the aircraft
in compliance
with the requirements of article 14 of this Order is
demonstrated to all passengers;
(bb) when flying above flight level 130 all passengers and cabin attendants
are recommended to use oxygen; and
(cc) during any period when the aircraft is flying above flight level 100
oxygen is used by all the flight crew of the aircraft;
or
(ii) he complies instead with the
provisions of sub-paragraph (e).
Operation of radio in aircraft
46. - (1) The radio station in an aircraft
shall not be operated, whether or not the aircraft is in flight, except in
accordance with the conditions of the licence issued in respect of that
station under the law of the country in which the aircraft
is registered or
the State of the operator and by a person duly licensed or otherwise
permitted to operate the radio station
under that law.
(2)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
whenever an aircraft is in flight in such circumstances that it is required
by or under this
Order to be equipped with radio communications apparatus, a
continuous radio watch shall be maintained by a member of the flight
crew
listening to the signals transmitted upon the frequency notified, or
designated by a message received from an appropriate
aeronautical radio
station, for use by that aircraft.
(b)
(i) The radio watch may be
discontinued or continued on another frequency to the extent that a message
as aforesaid so permits.
(ii) The watch may be kept by a device installed in the aircraft if:
(aa) the appropriate aeronautical
radio station has been informed to that effect and has raised no objection;
and
(bb) that station is notified, or in the case of a station situated in a
country other than the Territory, otherwise designated
as transmitting a
signal suitable for that purpose.
(3) Whenever an aircraft is
in flight in such circumstances that it is required by or under this Order
to
be equipped with radio or radio navigation equipment a member of the flight
crew shall operate that equipment in such a
manner as he may be instructed by
the appropriate air traffic control unit or as may be notified in relation to
any notified
airspace in which the aircraft is flying.
(4) The radio station in an aircraft shall not be
operated so as to cause interference which impairs
the efficiency of
aeronautical telecommunications or navigational services, and in particular
emissions shall not be made except
as follows:
(a) emissions of the class and
frequency for the time being in use, in accordance with general international
aeronautical practice,
in the airspace in which the aircraft is flying;
(b) distress, urgency and safety messages and signals, in accordance with
general international aeronautical practice;
(c) messages and signals relating to the flight of the aircraft, in
accordance with general international aeronautical practice;
and
(d) such public correspondence messages as may be permitted by or under the
aircraft radio station licence referred to in paragraph
(1).
(5) In any flying machine
registered in the Territory which is engaged on a flight for the purpose of
public transport the pilot and the flight engineer (if any) shall not make
use of a hand-held microphone (whether for the purpose
of radio communication
or of intercommunication within the aircraft) whilst the aircraft is flying
in controlled airspace below
flight level 150 or is taking off or landing.
Minimum navigation performance
47. - (1) An aircraft registered in the
Territory shall not fly in North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance
Specification
airspace unless it is equipped with navigation systems which
enable the aircraft to maintain the navigation performance capability
specified in regulation 19(1) in Schedule 14 to this Order.
(2) The equipment required by paragraph (1) shall be
approved by the Governor, installed and maintained
in a manner approved by
the Governor and shall, while the aircraft is flying in the said airspace, be
operated in accordance
with procedures approved by the Governor.
(3) An approval granted by the Governor for the
purposes of this article shall be in writing and may
be subject to such
conditions as the Governor thinks fit.
Height keeping performance - aircraft registered in the Territory
48. - (1) Unless otherwise authorised by the
appropriate air traffic control unit, an aircraft registered in the Territory
shall not fly in reduced vertical separation minimum airspace notified for
the purpose of this article, unless it is equipped
with height keeping
systems which enable the aircraft to maintain the height keeping performance
capability specified in regulation
19(2) in Schedule 14 to this Order.
(2) The equipment required by paragraph (1) shall be
approved by the Governor, installed and maintained
in a manner approved by
the Governor and shall, while the aircraft is flying in the said airspace, be
operated in accordance
with procedures approved by the Governor.
(3) An approval granted by the Governor for the
purposes of this article shall be in writing and may
be subject to such
conditions as the Governor thinks fit.
Height keeping performance - aircraft not registered in the
Territory
49. Unless otherwise authorised by the appropriate air
traffic control unit an aircraft registered elsewhere than in the Territory
shall not fly in Territory reduced vertical separation minimum airspace
unless:
(a) it is so equipped with height
keeping systems as to comply with the law of the country in which the
aircraft is registered
insofar as that law requires it to be so equipped when
flying in any specified areas; and
(b) the said equipment is capable of being operated so as to enable the
aircraft to maintain the height keeping performance
notified in respect of
the airspace in which the aircraft is flying, and it is so operated.
Area navigation equipment - aircraft
registered in the Territory
50. - (1) An aircraft registered in the
Territory shall not fly in controlled airspace notified for the purposes or
this paragraph as an area navigation route or area unless:
(a) it is equipped with area
navigation equipment which is approved by the Governor in relation to the
purpose for which it
is to be used, and which is installed and maintained in
a manner approved by the Governor; and
(b) the said equipment is capable of being operated so as to enable the
aircraft to maintain the navigation accuracy notified
in respect of the
airspace in which the aircraft is flying, and it is so operated.
(2) An aircraft registered
in the Territory shall not, when flying in controlled airspace notified for
the purposes of this paragraph, not being an area navigation route or area,
be navigated by means of area navigation equipment
unless:
(a) the said equipment is approved
by the Governor in relation to the purpose for which it is to be used, and is
installed and
maintained in a manner approved by the Governor; and
(b) the said equipment is capable of being operated so as to enable the
aircraft to maintain the navigation accuracy notified
in respect of the
airspace in which the aircraft is flying, and it is so operated.
(3)
(a) For the purposes of this
article, an approval shall be in writing and may be subject to such
conditions as the Governor
thinks fit.
(b) An approval may be granted in respect of any aircraft or specified class
or category of aircraft or in respect of a specified
type or types of
equipment.
Area navigation equipment - aircraft not
registered in the Territory
51. - (1) An aircraft registered elsewhere
than in the Territory shall not fly in controlled airspace notified for the
purposes of paragraph (1) of article 50 unless:
(a) it is so equipped with area
navigation equipment as to comply with the law of the country in which the
aircraft is registered
insofar as that law requires it to be equipped when
flying within any specified areas; and
(b) the said equipment is capable of being operated so as to enable the
aircraft to maintain the navigation accuracy notified
in respect of the
airspace in which the aircraft is flying, and it is so operated.
(2) An aircraft registered
elsewhere than in the Territory shall not, when flying in controlled airspace
notified for the purposes of paragraph (2) of article 50, be navigated by
means of area navigation equipment unless:
(a) the said equipment complies
with the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered insofar as
that law requires
it to be so equipped when flying within any specified
areas; and
(b) the said equipment is capable of being operated so as to enable the
aircraft to maintain the navigation accuracy notified
in respect of the
airspace in which the aircraft is flying, and it is so operated.
Use of airborne collision avoidance system
52. On any flight on which an airborne collision
avoidance system is required by paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to this Order to be
carried in an aeroplane, the system shall be operated:
(a) in the case of an aircraft to
which article 31 applies, in accordance with procedures contained in the
Operations Manual
for the aircraft;
(b) in the case of an aircraft registered in the Territory to which article
31 does not apply, in accordance with procedures
which are suitable having
regard to the purposes of the equipment; or
(c) in the case of an aircraft which is registered elsewhere than in the
Territory, in accordance with any procedures with
which it is required to
comply under the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered.
Use of flight recording systems and preservation of
records
53. - (1) On any flight on which a flight
data recorder, a cockpit voice recorder or a combined cockpit voice
recorder/flight
data recorder is required by paragraph 4(4), (5), (6) or (7)
of Schedule 4 to this Order to be carried in an aeroplane, it shall
always be
in use from the beginning of the take-off run to the end of the landing run.
(2) The operator of the aeroplane shall at all times,
subject to article 80 of this Order, preserve:
(a) the last 25 hours of recording
made by any flight data recorder required by or under this Order to be
carried in an aeroplane;
and
(b) a record of not less than one representative flight, that is to say, a
recording of a flight made within the last 12 months
which includes a
take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach to landing and landing, together
with a means of identifying the
record with the flight to which it relates;
and shall preserve such records for such period as
the Governor may in a particular case direct.
(3) On any flight on which a cockpit voice recorder,
a flight data recorder or a combined cockpit voice
recorder/flight data
recorder is required by paragraph 4(16) of Schedule 4 to this Order to be
carried in a helicopter, it
shall always be in use from the time the rotors
first turn for the purpose of taking off until the rotors are next stopped.
(4) The operator of the helicopter shall at all
times, subject to article 80 of this Order, preserve:
(a) the last 8 hours of recording
made by any flight data recorder specified at sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of
Scale SS of paragraph
5 of Schedule 4 to this Order and required by or under
this Order to be carried in the helicopter;
(b) in the case of a combined cockpit voice recorder/flight data recorder
specified at sub-paragraph (iii) of the said Scale
SS and required by or
under this Order to be carried in a helicopter either:
(i) the last 8 hours of recording;
or
(ii) the last 5 hours of recording or the duration of the last flight,
whichever is the greater, together with an additional
period of recording for
either:
(aa) the period immediately
preceding the last 5 hours of recording or the duration of the last flight,
whichever is the greater;
or
(bb) such period or periods as the Governor may permit in any particular case
or class of cases or generally.
(5) The additional recording
retained pursuant to sub-paragraphs (b)(ii)(aa) and (bb) of paragraph (4)
shall, together with the recording required to be retained pursuant to
sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of paragraph (4), total a period
of 8 hours and shall
be retained in accordance with arrangements approved by the Governor.
(6) An approval granted by the Governor for the
purposes of this article shall be in writing and may
be subject to such
conditions as the Governor thinks fit.
Towing of gliders
54. - (1) An aircraft in flight shall not
tow a glider unless the certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid
in respect of the towing aircraft under the law of the country in which that
aircraft is registered includes an express provision
that it may be used for
that purpose.
(2) The length of the combination of towing aircraft,
tow rope and glider in flight shall not exceed
150 metres.
(3) The commander of an aircraft which is about to
tow a glider shall satisfy himself, before the towing
aircraft takes off:
(a) that the tow rope is in good
condition and is of adequate strength for the purpose, and that the
combination of towing aircraft
and glider, having regard to its performance
in the conditions to be expected on the intended flight and to any
obstructions
at the place of departure and on the intended route, is capable
of safely taking off, reaching and maintaining a safe height at
which to
separate the combination and that thereafter the towing aircraft can make a
safe landing at the place of intended
destination;
(b) that signals have been agreed and communication established with persons
suitably stationed so as to enable the glider
to take off safely; and
(c) that emergency signals have been agreed between the commander of the
towing aircraft and the commander of the glider, to
be used, respectively, by
the commander of the towing aircraft to indicate that the tow should
immediately be released by the
glider, and by the commander of the glider to
indicate that the tow cannot be released.
(4) The glider shall be
attached to the towing aircraft by means of the tow rope before the aircraft
takes off.
Towing, picking up and raising of persons and articles
55. - (1) Subject to the provisions of this
article, an aircraft in flight shall not, by means external to the aircraft,
tow any article, other than a glider, or pick up or raise any person, animal
or article, unless the certificate of airworthiness
issued or rendered valid
in respect of that aircraft under the law of the country in which the
aircraft is registered includes
an express provision that it may be used for
that purpose.
(2) An aircraft shall not launch or pick up tow
ropes, banners or similar articles other than at an
aerodrome.
(3) An aircraft in flight shall not tow any article,
other than a glider, at night or when flight visibility
is less than one
nautical mile.
(4) The length of the combination of towing aircraft,
tow rope, and article in tow, shall not exceed
150 metres.
(5) A helicopter shall not fly at any height over a
congested area of a city, town or settlement at
any time when any article,
person or animal is suspended from the helicopter.
(6) A passenger shall not be carried in a helicopter
at any time when an article, person or animal
is suspended therefrom, other
than a passenger who has duties to perform in connection with the article,
person or animal or
a passenger who has been picked up or raised by means
external to the helicopter or a passenger who it is intended shall be lowered
to the surface by such means.
(7) Nothing in this article shall:
(a) prohibit the towing in a
reasonable manner by an aircraft in flight of any radio aerial, any
instrument which is being used
for experimental purposes, or any signal,
apparatus or article required or permitted by or under this Order to be towed
or
displayed by an aircraft in flight;
(b) prohibit the picking up or raising of any person, animal or article in an
emergency or for the purpose of saving life;
(c) apply to any aircraft while it is flying in accordance with the "B
Conditions" set forth in Part A of Schedule
3 to this Order; or
(d) be taken to permit the towing or picking up of a glider otherwise than in
accordance with article 54 of this Order.
Dropping of articles and animals
56. - (1) Articles and animals (whether or
not attached to a parachute) shall not be dropped, or permitted to drop, from
an aircraft in flight so as to endanger persons or property.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), except under and in
accordance with the terms of an aerial application
certificate granted under
article 58 of this Order, articles and animals (whether or not attached to a
parachute) shall not
be dropped, or permitted to drop, to the surface from an
aircraft flying over the Territory.
(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply to the dropping of
articles by, or with the authority of, the commander
of the aircraft in any
of the following circumstances:
(a) the dropping of articles for
the purpose of saving life;
(b) the jettisoning, in case of emergency, of fuel or other articles in the
aircraft;
(c) the dropping of ballast in the form of fine sand or water;
(d) the dropping of articles solely for the purpose of navigating the
aircraft in accordance with ordinary practice or with
the provisions of this
Order;
(e) the dropping at an aerodrome of tow ropes, banners, or similar articles
towed by aircraft;
(f) the dropping of articles for the purposes of public health or as a
measure against weather conditions, surface icing or
oil pollution, or for
training for the dropping of articles for any such purposes, if the articles
are dropped with the permission
of the Governor and in accordance with any
conditions subject to which that permission may have been given; or
(g) the dropping of wind drift indicators for the purpose of enabling
parachute descents to be made if the wind drift indicators
are dropped with
the permission of the Governor and in accordance with any conditions subject
to which that permission may
have been given.
(4) For the purpose of this
article "dropping" includes projecting and lowering.
(5) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the
lowering of any article or animal from a helicopter
to the surface, if the
certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid in respect of the
helicopter under the law of
the country in which it is registered includes an
express provision that it may be used for that purpose.
Dropping of persons
57. - (1) A person shall not drop, be
dropped or permitted to drop to the surface or jump from an aircraft flying
over
the Territory except under and in accordance with the terms of either a
police air operator's certificate or a written permission
granted by the
Governor under this article.
(2) For the purposes of this article "dropping"
includes projecting and lowering.
(3) Notwithstanding the grant of a police air
operator's certificate or a permission under paragraph
(1), a person shall
not drop, be dropped or be permitted to drop from an aircraft in flight so as
to endanger persons or property.
(4) An aircraft shall not be used for the purpose of
dropping persons unless:
(a) the certificate of
airworthiness issued or rendered valid in respect of that aircraft under the
law of the country in which
the aircraft is registered includes an express
provision that it may be used for that purpose and the aircraft is operated
in accordance with a written permission granted by the Governor under this
article; or
(b) the aircraft is operated under and in accordance with the terms of a
police air operator's certificate.
(5)
(a) Every applicant for and holder
of a permission shall make available to the Governor if requested to do so a
parachuting
manual and shall make such amendments or additions to such manual
as the Governor may require.
(b)
(i) The holder of a permission
shall make the manual available to every employee or person who is or may
engage in parachuting
activities conducted by him.
(ii) The manual shall contain all such information and instruction as may be necessary
to enable such employees or persons
to perform their duties.
(6) Nothing in this article
shall apply to the descent of persons by parachute from an aircraft in an
emergency.
(7) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the
lowering of any person in an emergency or for the purpose
of saving life.
(8) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the
lowering of any person from a helicopter to the surface
if the certificate or
airworthiness issued or rendered valid in respect of the helicopter under the
law of the country in which
it is registered includes an express provision
that it may be used for that purpose.
Issue of aerial application certificates
58. - (1) An aircraft shall not be used for
the dropping of articles for the purposes of agriculture, horticulture or
forestry or for training for the dropping of articles for any of such
purposes, otherwise than under and in accordance with
the terms of an aerial
application certificate granted to the operator of the aircraft under paragraph
(2).
(2)
(a) The Governor shall grant an
aerial application certificate if he is satisfied that the applicant is a fit
person to hold
the certificate and is competent, having regard in particular
to his previous conduct and experience, his equipment, organisation,
staffing
and other arrangements, to secure the safe operation of the aircraft
specified in the certificate on flights for the
purposes specified in
paragraph (1).
(b) A certificate may be granted subject to such conditions as the Governor
thinks fit including, without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing,
conditions for ensuring that the aircraft and any article dropped from it do
not endanger persons
or property in the aircraft or elsewhere, and shall,
subject to article 81 of this Order, remain in force for the period specified
in the certificate.
(3) Every applicant for and
holder of an aerial application certificate shall make available to the
Governor upon application and to every member of his operating staff upon the
certificate being granted, an aerial application
manual which shall contain
all such information and instructions as may be necessary to enable the
operating staff to perform
their duties as such. The holder of a certificate
shall make such amendments of or additions to the manual as the Governor may
require.
(4) For the purposes of this article "operating
staff" has the meaning ascribed to it in
article 31(4) of this Order.
Carriage of weapons and of munitions of war
59. - (1) Subject to paragraph (4) an
aircraft shall not carry any munition of war unless:
(a) such munition of war is
carried with the written permission of the Governor and in accordance with
any conditions relating
thereto;
(b) subject to sub-paragraph (c), the commander of the aircraft is informed
in writing by the operator before the flight commences
of the type, weight or
quantity and location of any such munition of war on board or suspended
beneath the aircraft and any
conditions of the permission of the Governor;
and
(c) in the case of an aircraft which if flying under and in accordance with
the terms of a police air operator's certificate
the commander of the
aircraft is informed of the matters referred to in sub-paragraph (b) but he
need not be so informed in
writing.
(2)
(a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)
it shall, subject to sub-paragraph (b), be unlawful for an aircraft to carry
any sporting
weapon or munition of war in any compartment or apparatus to
which passengers have access;
(b) sub-paragraph (a) shall not apply to an aircraft which is flying under
and in accordance with the terms of a police air
operator's certificate.
(3)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
it shall be unlawful for a person to carry or have in his possession or take
or cause to be
taken on board an aircraft, to suspend or cause to be
suspended beneath an aircraft or to deliver or cause to be delivered for
carriage thereon any sporting weapon or munition of war unless:
(i) the sporting weapon or
munition of war:
(aa) is either part of the baggage
of a passenger on the aircraft or consigned as cargo to be carried thereby;
(bb) is carried in a part of the aircraft, or in any apparatus attached to
the aircraft inaccessible to passengers; and
(cc) in the case of a firearm, is unloaded.
(ii) particulars of the sporting
weapon or munition of war have been furnished by that passenger or by the
consignor to the
operator before the flight commences; and
(iii) without prejudice to paragraph (1) the operator consents to the
carriage of such sporting weapon or munition of war by
the aircraft.
(b) Sub-paragraph (a) shall not
apply to or in relation to an aircraft which is flying under and in
accordance with the terms
of a police air operator's certificate.
(4) Nothing in this article
shall apply to any sporting weapon or munition of war taken or carried on
board an aircraft registered in a country other than the Territory if the
sporting weapon or munition of war, as the case may
be, may under the law of
the country in which the aircraft is registered be lawfully taken or carried
on board for the purpose
of ensuring the safety of the aircraft or of persons
on board.
(5) For the purposes of this article:
(a) "munition of war"
means:
(i) any weapon or ammunition;
(ii) any article containing an explosive, noxious liquid or gas; or
(iii) any other thing;
which is designed or made for use
in warfare or against persons, including parts, whether components or
accessories, for such
weapon, ammunition or article.
(b) "sporting weapon" means:
(i) any weapon or ammunition;
(ii) any article containing an explosive, noxious liquid or gas; or
(iii) any other thing, including parts, whether components or accessories,
for such weapon, ammunition or article;
which is not a munition of war.
Carriage of dangerous goods
60. - (1) It shall be an offence to
contravene or permit the contravention of or fail to comply with any of the
regulations
set out in Schedule 15 to this Order.
(2) The Governor may, with the approval of the
Secretary of State, make regulations which supplement,
amend or replace the
regulations set out in the said Schedule 15, and which prescribe:
(a) the classification of certain
articles and substances as dangerous goods;
(b) the categories of dangerous goods which an aircraft may not carry;
(c) the conditions which apply to the loading on, suspension beneath and
carriage by an aircraft of dangerous goods;
(d) the manner in which dangerous goods must be packed, marked, labelled and
consigned before being loaded on, suspended beneath
or carried by an
aircraft;
(e) any other provisions for securing the safety of aircraft and any
apparatus attached thereto and the safety of persons and
property on the
surface in relation to the loading on, suspension beneath or carriage by an
aircraft of dangerous goods;
(f) the persons to whom information about the carriage of dangerous goods
must be provided;
(g) the documents relating to the carriage by an aircraft of dangerous goods
which must be produced to the Governor or an authorised
person on request;
(h) the powers to be conferred on an authorised person relating to the
enforcement of the regulations made hereunder.
(3) The provisions of
paragraph (1) of this article shall be without prejudice to any other
provisions
of this Order; and the provisions of paragraph (1) of this
article, of Schedule 15 to this Order and of any regulations supplementing,
amending or replacing the regulations set out in the said Schedule 15 shall
be additional to and not in derogation from the
provisions of Article 59 of
this Order.
Method of carriage of persons
61. - (1)
(a) Subject to paragraphs (2) and
(3), a person shall not be in or on any part of an aircraft in flight which
is not a part
designed for the accommodation of persons and in particular a
person shall not be on the wings or undercarriage of an aircraft.
(b) A person shall not be in or on any object, other than a glider or flying
machine, towed by or attached to an aircraft in
flight.
(2) A person may have
temporary access to:
(a) any part of an aircraft for
the purpose of taking action necessary for the safety of the aircraft or of
any person, animal
or goods therein; and
(b) any part of an aircraft in which cargo or stores are carried, being a
part which is designed to enable a person to have
access thereto while the
aircraft is in flight.
(3) This article shall not
apply to a passenger in a helicopter flying under and in accordance with a
police air operator's certificate who is disembarking in accordance with a
procedure contained in the police operations manual
for the helicopter.
Exits and break-in markings
62. - (1) Subject to paragraph (5)(b), this
article shall apply to every public transport aircraft registered in the
Territory.
(2)
(a) Whenever an aircraft to which
this article applies is carrying passengers, every exit therefrom and every
internal door
in the aircraft shall be in working order, and, subject to
sub-paragraph (b), during take-off and landing and during any emergency,
every such exit and door shall be kept free from obstruction and shall not be
fastened by locking or otherwise so as to prevent,
hinder or delay its use by
passengers.
(b)
(i) An exit may be obstructed by
cargo if it is an exit which, in accordance with arrangements approved by the
Governor either
generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or a
particular aircraft, is not required for use by passengers.
(ii) A door between the flight crew compartment and any adjacent compartment
to which passengers have access may be locked
or bolted if the commander of
the aircraft so determines, for the purpose of preventing access by
passengers to the flight
crew compartment.
(iii) Nothing in this paragraph shall apply to any internal door which is so
placed that it cannot prevent, hinder or delay
the exit of passengers from
the aircraft in an emergency if it is not in working order.
(3) Every exit from the
aircraft shall be marked with the words "Exit" or "Emergency
Exit" in capital letters.
(4)
(a) Every exit from the aircraft
shall be marked with instructions in English and with diagrams to indicate
the correct method
of opening the exit.
(b) The markings shall be placed on or near the inside surface of the door or
other closure of the exit and, if it is openable
from the outside of the
aircraft, on or near the exterior surface.
(5)
(a)
(i) Every aircraft to which this
article applies, being an aircraft of which the maximum total weight
authorised exceeds 3,600
kg, shall be marked upon the exterior surface of its
fuselage with markings to show the areas (in this paragraph referred to as
"break-in areas") which can, for purposes of rescue in an
emergency, be most readily and effectively broken into
by persons outside the
aircraft.
(ii) The break-in areas shall be rectangular in shape and shall be marked by
right-angled corner markings, each arm of which
shall be 10 centimetres in
length along its outer edge and 2.5 centimetres in width.
(iii) The words "Cut Here in Emergency" shall be marked across the
centre of each break-in area in capital letters.
(b) This paragraph shall not apply
to helicopters.
(6) On every flight by an
aircraft to which this article applies, being an aircraft of which the
maximum
total weight authorised exceeds 5,700 kg, every exit from such an
aircraft intended to be used by passengers in an emergency shall
be marked
upon the exterior of the aircraft by a band not less than 5 centimetres in
width outlining the exit.
(7) The markings required by this article shall:
(a) be painted, or affixed by other
equally permanent means;
(b) except in the case of the markings required by paragraph (6), be red in
colour, and in any case in which the colour of
the adjacent background is
such as to render red markings not readily visible, be outlined in white or some
other contrasting
colour in such a manner as to render them readily visible;
(c) in the case of the markings required by paragraph (6), be of a colour
clearly contrasting with the background on which
it appears; and
(d) be kept at all times clean and unobscured.
(8)
(a) Subject to compliance with
sub-paragraph (b), if one, but not more than one, exit from an aircraft
becomes inoperative at
a place where it is not reasonably practicable for it
to be repaired or replaced, nothing in this article shall prevent that
aircraft from carrying passengers until it next lands at a place where the
exit can be repaired or replaced.
(b) On any flight pursuant to this paragraph:
(i) the number of passengers
carried and the position of the seats which they occupy shall be in
accordance with arrangements
approved by the Governor either in relation to
the particular aircraft or to a class of aircraft; and
(ii) in accordance with arrangements so approved, the exit shall be fastened
by locking or otherwise, the words "Exit"
or "Emergency
Exit" shall be covered, and the exit shall be marked by a red disc at
least 23 centimetres in diameter
with a horizontal white bar across it
bearing the words "No Exit" in red letters.
Endangering safety of an aircraft
63. A person shall not recklessly or negligently act in
a manner likely to endanger an aircraft, or any person therein.
Endangering safety of any person or property
64. A person shall not recklessly or negligently cause
or permit an aircraft to endanger any person or property.
Drunkenness in aircraft
65. - (1) A person shall not enter any
aircraft when drunk, or be drunk in any aircraft.
(2) A person shall not, when acting as a member of
the crew of any aircraft or being carried in any
aircraft for the purpose of
so acting, be under the influence of drink or a drug to such an extent as to
impair his capacity
so to act.
Smoking in aircraft
66. - (1) Notices indicating when smoking is
prohibited shall be exhibited in every aircraft registered in the Territory
so as to be visible from each passenger seat therein.
(2) A person shall not smoke in any compartment of an
aircraft registered in the Territory at a time
when smoking is prohibited in
that compartment by a notice to that effect exhibited by or on behalf of the
commander of the
aircraft.
Authority of commander and members of the crew of an aircraft
67. Every person in an aircraft shall obey all lawful
commands which the commander of that aircraft may give for the purpose of
securing the safety of the aircraft and of persons or property carried
therein, or the safety, efficiency or regularity of air
navigation.
Acting in a disruptive manner
68. No person shall while in an aircraft:
(a) use any threatening, abusive
or insulting words towards a member of the crew of the aircraft;
(b) behave in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards
a member of the crew of the aircraft; or
(c) intentionally interfere with the performance by a member of the crew of
the aircraft or his duties.
Stowaways
69. A person shall not secrete himself for the purpose
of being carried in an aircraft without the consent of the either the
operator
or the commander thereof or of any other person entitled to give
consent to his being carried in the aircraft.
Flying Displays
70. - (1) No person shall act as the
organiser of a flying display (in this article referred to as "the
flying
display director") unless he has obtained the permission in
writing of the Governor under paragraph (4) for that flying display
and
complies with any conditions therein specified.
(2)
(a) The commander of an aircraft
intending to participate in a flying display shall take all reasonable steps
to satisfy himself
before he participates that:
(i) the flying display director
has been granted an appropriate permission under paragraph (4);
(ii) the flight can comply with any relevant conditions subject to which that
permission may have been granted; and
(iii) the pilot has been granted an appropriate pilot display authorisation.
(b) The commander of an aircraft
participating in a flying display for which a permission has been granted
shall comply with
any conditions subject to which that permission may have
been granted.
(c) No person shall act as pilot of an aircraft participating in a flying
display unless he holds an appropriate pilot display
authorisation and he
complies with any conditions subject to which the authorisation may have been
given.
(3) The flying display
director shall not permit any person to act as pilot of an aircraft which
participates
in a flying display unless such person holds an appropriate
pilot display authorisation.
(4)
(a) The Governor shall grant a
permission required by virtue of paragraph (1) if he is satisfied that the
applicant is a fit
and competent person, having regard in particular to his
previous conduct and experience, his organisation, staffing and other
arrangements, to safely organise the proposed flying display.
(b) The permission may be granted subject to such conditions, which may
include conditions in respect of military aircraft,
as the Governor thinks
fit and shall, subject to article 81 of this Order, remain in force for the
period specified in the
permission.
(5) The Governor shall, for the
purpose of this article, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions
as he thinks fit:
(a) grant a display authorisation
authorising the holder to act as pilot of an aircraft taking part in a flying
display upon
his being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to hold
the authorisation and is qualified by reason of his knowledge,
experience,
competence, skill, physical and mental fitness to fly in accordance therewith
and for that purpose the applicant
shall furnish such evidence and undergo
such examinations and tests as the Governor may require; and
(b) authorise a person to conduct such examinations or tests as he may
specify.
(6) A pilot display
authorisation granted in accordance with this article shall, subject to
article
81 of this Order, remain in force for the period indicated in the
pilot display authorisation.
(7) For the purposes of this article, an appropriate
pilot display authorisation shall mean such an
authorisation which is valid
and appropriate to the intended flight and which has been granted by the
Governor pursuant to
paragraph (5)(a).
(8) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to either:
(a) a flying display which takes
place at an aerodrome in the occupation of the Ministry of Defence or of any
visiting force
or any other premises in the occupation or under the control
of the Ministry of Defence; or
(b) a flying display at which the only participating aircraft are military
aircraft.
(9) The flying display
director shall not permit any military aircraft to participate in a flying
display
unless he complies with any conditions specified in respect of
military aircraft subject to which permission for the flying display
may have
been granted.
(10) Nothing in this article shall apply to an
aircraft race or contest or to an aircraft taking part
in such a race or
contest or to the commander or pilot thereof whether or not such race or
contest is held in association with
a flying display.
PART VI
Fatigue of Crew
Application and interpretation of Part VI
71. - (1)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
articles 72 and 73 of this Order apply in relation to any aircraft registered
in the Territory
which is either:
(i) engaged on a flight for the
purpose of public transport; or
(ii) operated by an air transport undertaking.
(b) Articles 72 and 73 of this
Order shall not apply in relation to a flight made only for the purpose of
instruction in flying
given by or on behalf of a flying club or flying
school, or a person who is not an air transport undertaking.
(2) For the purposes of this
Order:
(a) "flight time", in
relation to any person, means all time spent by that person in:
(i) a civil aircraft whether or
not registered in the Territory (other than such an aircraft of which the
maximum total weight
authorised does not exceed 1,600 kg and which is not
flying for the purpose of public transport or aerial work); or
(ii) a military aircraft,
while it is in flight and he is
carried therein as a member of the crew thereof;
(b) "day" means a continuous period of 24 hours beginning at
midnight Co-ordinated Universal Time; and
(c) a helicopter shall be deemed to be in flight from the moment the
helicopter first moves under its own power for the purpose
of taking off
until the rotors are next stopped.
Fatigue of crew - operator's
responsibilities
72. - (1) The operator of an aircraft to
which this article applies shall not cause or permit that aircraft to make a
flight unless:
(a) he has established a scheme
for the regulation of flight times for every person flying in that aircraft
as a member of its
crew;
(b) the scheme is approved by the Governor subject to such conditions as he
thinks fit;
(c) either:
(i) the scheme is incorporated in
the operations manual required by article 31 of this Order; or
(ii) in any case where an operations manual is not required by that article,
the scheme is incorporated in a document, a copy
of which has been made
available to every person flying in that aircraft as a member of its crew;
and
(d) he has taken all such steps as
are reasonably practicable to ensure that the provisions of the scheme will
be complied with
in relation to every person flying in that aircraft as a
member of its crew.
(2) The operator of an
aircraft to which this article applies shall not cause or permit any person
to
fly therein as a member of its crew if he knows or has reason to believe
that the person is suffering from, or, having regard
to the circumstances of
the flight to be undertaken, is likely to suffer from, such fatigue while he
is so flying as may endanger
the safety of the aircraft or of its occupants.
(3) The operator of an aircraft to which this article
applies shall not cause or permit any person
to fly therein as a member of
its flight crew unless the operator has in his possession an accurate and
up-to-date record in
respect of that person and in respect of the 28 days
immediately preceding the flight showing:
(a) all his flight times; and
(b) brief particulars of the nature of the functions performed by him in the
course of his flight times.
(4) The record referred to
in paragraph (3) shall, subject to article 80, be preserved by the operator
of the aircraft until a date 12 months after the flight referred to in that
paragraph.
Fatigue of crew-responsibilities of crew
73. - (1) A person shall not act as a member
of the crew of an aircraft to which this article applies if he knows or
suspects that he is suffering from, or, having regard to the circumstances of
the flight to be undertaken, is likely to suffer
from, such fatigue as may
endanger the safety of the aircraft or of its occupants.
(2) A person shall not act as a member of the flight
crew of an aircraft to which this article applies
unless he has ensured that
the operator of the aircraft is aware of his flight times during the period
of 28 days preceding
the flight.
Flight times - responsibilities of flight crew
74. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person
shall not act as a member of the flight crew of an aircraft registered in
the
Territory if at the beginning of the flight the aggregate of all his previous
flight times:
(a) during the period of 28
consecutive days expiring at the end of the day on which the flight begins
exceeds 100 hours; or
(b) during the period of twelve months expiring at the end of the previous
month exceeds 900 hours.
(2)
(a) This article shall not apply
to a flight made in circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b).
(b)
(i) A private flight in an
aircraft of which the maximum total weight does not exceed 1,600 kg; or
(ii) a flight which is not for the purpose of public transport and is not
operated by an air transport undertaking where, at
the time when the flight
begins, the aggregate of all the flight times of the member of the flight
crew concerned since he
was last medically examined and found fit by a person
approved by the Governor for the purpose of article 25(1)(b) does not exceed
25 hours.
Protection of air crew from cosmic radiation
75. - (1) A relevant undertaking shall take
appropriate measures to:
(a) assess the exposure to cosmic
radiation when in flight of those air crew who are liable to be subject to
cosmic radiation
in excess of 1 milliSievert per year;
(b) take into account the assessed exposure when organising work schedules
with a view to reducing the doses of highly exposed
air crew; and
(c) inform the workers concerned of the health risks their work involves.
(2) A relevant undertaking
shall ensure that in relation to a pregnant air crew member, the conditions
of exposure to cosmic radiation when she is in flight are such that the
equivalent dose to the foetus will be as low as reasonably
achievable and is
unlikely to exceed 1 milliSievert during the remainder of the pregnancy.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall require the
undertaking concerned to take any action in relation
to an air crew member
until she has notified the undertaking in writing that she is pregnant.
(4) The definition in article 130 of "crew"
shall not apply for the purposes of this article.
(5) In this article and in article 77:
(a) "air crew" means
every person employed or engaged in an aircraft in flight on the business of
the aircraft;
(b) "undertaking" includes a natural or legal person and, subject
to paragraph (6), "relevant undertaking"
means an undertaking which
operates aircraft and is established in the Territory; and
(c) "year" means any period of twelve months.
PART VII
Documents and Records
Documents to be carried
76. - (1) An aircraft shall not fly unless
it carries the documents which it is required to carry under the law of the
country in which it is registered.
(2)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
an aircraft registered in the Territory shall, when in flight, carry
documents in accordance
with Schedule 11 to this Order.
(b) If the flight is intended to begin and end at the same aerodrome and does
not include passage over the territory of any
country other than the
Territory, the documents may be kept at that aerodrome instead of being
carried in the aircraft.
Keeping and production of records of exposure to
cosmic radiation
77. - (1) A relevant undertaking shall keep
a record for the period and in the manner prescribed in Schedule 17 to this
Order of the exposure to cosmic radiation of air crew assessed under article
75 and the names of the air crew concerned.
(2) A relevant undertaking shall, within a reasonable
period after being requested to do so by an authorised
person, cause to be
produced to that person the record required to be kept under paragraph (1).
(3) A relevant undertaking shall, within a reasonable
period after being requested to do so by a person
in respect of whom a record
is required to be kept under paragraph (1), supply a copy of that record to
that person.
Production of documents and records
78. - (1) The commander of an aircraft
shall, within a reasonable time after being requested to do so by an
authorised
person, cause to be produced to that person:
(a) the certificates of
registration and airworthiness in force in respect of the aircraft;
(b) the licences of its flight crew; and
(c) such other documents as the aircraft is required by article 76 of this
Order to carry when in flight.
(2) The operator of an
aircraft registered in the Territory shall, within a reasonable time after
being
requested to do so by an authorised person, cause to be produced to
that person such of the following documents or records as
may have been
requested by that person being documents or records which are required, by or
under this Order, to be in force
or to be carried, preserved or made
available:
(a) the documents referred to in
Schedule 11 to this Order as Documents A, B and G;
(b) the aircraft log book, engine log books and variable pitch propeller log
books required under this Order to be kept;
(c) the weight schedule, if any, required to be preserved under article 18 of
this Order;
(d) in the case of a public transport aircraft or aerial work aircraft, the
documents referred to in Schedule 11 to this Order
as Documents D and H;
(e) in the case of an aircraft in respect of which a certificate of
airworthiness in either the transport or aerial work category
is in force,
the documents referred to in Schedule 11 to this Order as Documents E and F;
(f) any records of flight times, duty periods and rest periods which he is
required by article 72(4) of this Order to preserve,
and such other documents
and information in the possession or control of the operator, as the
authorised person may require
for the purpose of determining whether those records
are complete and accurate;
(g) any such operations manuals as are required to be made available under
article 31(2)(a)(i) of this Order;
(h) the record made by any flight data recorder required to be carried by or
under this Order.
(3)
(a) The holder of a licence
granted or rendered valid under this Order shall, within a reasonable time
after being requested
to do so by an authorised person, cause to be produced
to that person his licence, including any certificate of validation. The
requirements of this paragraph shall be deemed to have been complied with,
except in relation to licences required by article
76 to be carried in the
aircraft or kept at an aerodrome, if the licence requested is produced within
five days after the request
has been made at a police station in the
Territory specified, at the time the request is made, by the person to whom
the request
is made.
(b) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply to a medical
certificate required pursuant to article 21(2)(b)(ii)
of this Order as they
apply to a licence granted or rendered valid under this Order.
(4) Every person required by
article 28 of this Order to keep a personal flying log book shall cause it
to
be produced within a reasonable time to an authorised person after being
requested to do so by him within two years after
the date of the last entry
therein.
Power to inspect and copy documents and records
79. An authorised person shall have the power to
inspect and copy any certificate, licence, log book, document or record which
he has the power pursuant to this Order and any regulations made thereunder
to require to be produced to him.
Preservation of documents, etc.
80. - (1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person
required by this Order to preserve any document or record by reason of his
being the operator of an aircraft shall, if he ceases to be the operator of
the aircraft, continue to preserve the document
or record as if he had not
ceased to be the operator, and in the event of his death the duty to preserve
the document or record
shall fall upon his personal representative.
(2)
(a) If another person becomes the
operator of the aircraft, the first-mentioned operator or his personal
representative shall
deliver to that person upon demand the certificates of
maintenance review and release to service, the log books and the weight
schedule and any record made by a flight data recorder and preserved in
accordance with article 53(2) and (4) of this Order
which are in force or
required to be preserved in respect of that aircraft.
(b) If an engine or variable pitch propeller is removed from the aircraft and
installed in another aircraft operated by another
person the first-mentioned
operator or his personal representative shall deliver to that person upon demand
the log book relating
to that engine or propeller.
(c) If any person in respect of whom a record has been kept by the first
mentioned operator in accordance with article 72(4)
of this Order becomes a
member of the flight crew of a public transport aircraft registered in the
Territory and operated by
another person the first-mentioned operator or his
personal representative shall deliver those records to that other person upon
demand.
(d) It shall be the duty of the other person referred to in sub-paragraphs
(a), (b) and (c) to deal with the document or record
delivered to him as if
he were the first-mentioned operator.
Revocation, suspension and variation of
certificates, licences and other documents
81. - (1)
(a) Subject to paragraphs (4) and
(5), the Governor may, if he thinks fit, provisionally suspend or vary any
certificate, licence,
approval, permission, exemption, authorisation or other
document issued, granted or having effect under this Order, pending inquiry
into or consideration of the case.
(b) The Governor may, on sufficient ground being shown to his satisfaction
after due inquiry, revoke, suspend or vary any such
certificate, licence,
approval, permission, exemption, authorisation or other document.
(2) The holder or any person
having the possession or custody of any certificate, licence, approval,
permission, exemption or other document which has been revoked, suspended or
varied under this Order shall surrender it to the
Governor within a
reasonable time after being required to do so by the Governor.
(3) The breach of any condition subject to which any
certificate, licence, approval, permission, exemption
or other document,
other than a licence issued in respect of an aerodrome, has been granted or
issued or which has effect under
this Order, shall, in the absence of
provision to the contrary in the document, render the document invalid during
the continuance
of the breach.
(4) The provisions of article 82 of this Order shall
have effect, in place of the provisions of this
article, in relation to
permissions granted by the Secretary of State or the Governor, as the case
may be, under article 113
of this Order and any approvals or authorisations
of, or consents to, any matter which the Secretary of State or the Governor
has granted, or is deemed to have granted, in pursuance of a permission which
he has so granted.
(5) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a flight manual,
performance schedule or other document incorporated
by reference in the
certificate of airworthiness may be varied on sufficient ground being shown
to the satisfaction of the
Governor, whether or not after due inquiry.
Revocation, suspension and variation of permissions, etc granted under
article 113 orarticle 115
82. - (1) Subject to the provisions of this
article, the Secretary of State may revoke, suspend or vary any permit to
which this article applies.
(2) Save as provided by paragraph (3), the Secretary
of State, may exercise his powers under paragraph
(1) only after notifying
the permit-holder of his intention to do so and after due consideration of
the case.
(3) If, by reason of the urgency of the matter, it
appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary
for him to do so, he may
provisionally suspend or vary a permit to which this article applies without
complying with the requirements
of paragraph (2); but he shall in any such
case comply with those requirements as soon thereafter as is reasonably
practicable
and shall then, in the light of his due consideration of the
case, either:
(a) revoke the provisional
suspension or variation of the permit; or
(b) substitute therefor a definitive revocation, suspension or variation,
which, if a definitive suspension, may be for the
same or a different period
as the provisional suspension (if any) or, if a definitive variation, may be
in the same or different
terms as the provisional variation (if any).
(4) The powers vested in the
Secretary of State by paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) may be exercised by him
whenever, in his judgement and whether or not by reason of anything done or
omitted to be done by the permit-holder or otherwise
connected with the
permit-holder, it is necessary or expedient that the permit-holder should not
enjoy, or should no longer
enjoy, the rights conferred on him by a permit to
which this article applies or should enjoy them subject to such limitations
or qualifications as the Secretary of State may determine. In particular, and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,
the Secretary of State
may exercise his said powers if:
(a) it appears to him that the
person to whom the permit was granted has committed a breach of any condition
to which it is
subject;
(b) it appears to him that any agreement between Her Majesty's Government in
the United Kingdom and the Government of any other
country in pursuance of
which or in reliance on which the permit was granted is no longer in force or
that that other Government
has committed a breach thereof;
(c) it appears to him that the person to whom the permit was granted, or such
other Government as aforesaid (that is to say,
a Government which is a party
to such an agreement as aforesaid with Her Majesty's Government in the United
Kingdom), or the
aeronautical authorities of the country concerned, have
acted in a manner which is inconsistent with or prejudicial to the operation
in good faith, and according to its object and purpose, of any such agreement
as aforesaid, or have engaged in unfair discriminatory
or restrictive
practices to the prejudice of the holder of an Air Transport Licence granted
under section 65 of the Civil Aviation
Act 1982[6] as it
applies in the United Kingdom or the holder of a route licence granted under
that section as applied by section 69A
of that Act in his operation of air
services to or from points in the country concerned or of the operator of an
aircraft registered
in and licensed to operate from any of the Territories by
regulations under section 13 of the Act in his operation of air services
to
or from points in the country concerned; and
(d) it appears to him that the person to whom the permit was granted, having
been granted it as a person designated by the
Government of a country other
than the United Kingdom for the purposes of any such agreement as aforesaid,
is no longer so
designated or that that person has so conducted himself, or
that such circumstances have arisen in relation to him, as to make
it
necessary or expedient to disregard or qualify the consequences of his being
so designated.
(5)
The permit-holder or any person having the possession or custody of any
permit which has been revoked,
suspended or varied under this article shall
surrender it to the Secretary of State within a reasonable time of being
required
by him to do so.
(6) The breach of any condition subject to which any
permit to which this article applies has been
granted shall render the permit
invalid during the continuance of the breach.
(7) The permits to which this article applies are
permissions granted by the Secretary of State or
the Governor as the case may
be under Article 113 or Article 115 of this Order and any approvals or
authorisations of, or consents
to, any matter which the Secretary of State or
the Governor has granted, or is deemed to have granted, in pursuance of a
permission
which he has so granted.
(8) References in this Article to the permit-holder
are references to the person to whom any permit
to which this article applies
has been granted or is deemed to have been granted.
(9) The Secretary of State may, in any particular
case, or class of cases, delegate to the Governor
the exercise of the powers
conferred on the Secretary of State under this article in respect of
permissions granted by the
Secretary of State or the Governor as the case may
be under Article 113 of this Order and any approvals or authorisations of,
or
consents to, any matter which the Secretary of State or the Governor has
granted, or is deemed to have granted, in pursuance
of a permission which he
has so granted.
(10) The provisions of this Article shall have
effect, as from the commencement of this Order, as well
in relation to
permits, being permits to which this Article applies, granted before the
commencement of this Order as in relation
to those granted thereafter.
Offences in relation to documents and records
83. - (1) A person
shall not with intent to deceive:
(a) use any certificate, licence,
approval, permission, exemption or other document issued or required by or
under this Order
which has been forged, altered, revoked or suspended, or to
which he is not entitled;
(b) lend any certificate, licence, approval, permission, exemption or any
other document issued or having effect or required
by or under this Order to,
or allow it to be used by, any other person; or
(c) make any false representation for the purpose of procuring for himself or
any other person the grant, issue, renewal or
variation of any such
certificate, licence, approval, permission, exemption or other document;
and in this paragraph a reference to a certificate,
licence, approval, permission, exemption or other document includes a copy
or
purported copy thereof.
(2) A person shall not intentionally damage, alter or
render illegible any log book or other record
required by or under this Order
to be maintained or any entry made therein, or knowingly make, or procure or
assist in the
making of, any false entry in or material omission from any
such log book or record or destroy any such log book or record during
the
period for which it is required under this Order to be preserved.
(3) All entries made in writing in any log book or
record referred to in paragraph (2) shall be made
in ink or indelible pencil.
(4) A person shall not knowingly make in a load sheet
any entry which is incorrect in any material
particular, or any material
omission from such a load sheet.
(5) A person shall not purport to issue any
certificate for the purpose of this Order, of any regulations
made thereunder
unless he is authorised to do so under this Order.
(6) A person shall not issue any certificate as
aforesaid unless he has satisfied himself that all
statements in the
certificate are correct.
PART VIII
Movement of Aircraft
Rules of the Air
84. - (1) The Governor may make Rules of the
Air supplementary to but not inconsistent with the Rules of the Air in
Schedule 13 to this Order.
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), it
shall be an offence to contravene, to permit the
contravention of, or to fail
to comply with, the Rules of the Air.
(3) It shall be lawful for the Rules of the Air to be
departed from to the extent necessary:
(a) for avoiding immediate danger;
(b) for complying with the law of any country other than the Territory within
which the aircraft then is; or
(c) for complying with Military Flying Regulations (Joint Service Publication
318) or Flying Orders to Contractors (Aviation
Publication 67) issued by the
Secretary of State in relation to an aircraft of which the commander is
acting as such in the
course of his duty as a member of any of Her Majesty's
naval, military or air forces.
(4) If any departure from
the Rules of the Air is made for the purpose of avoiding immediate danger,
the commander of the aircraft shall cause written particulars of the
departure, and of the circumstances giving rise to it, to
be given within 10
days thereafter to the competent authority of the country in whose territory
the departure was made or if
the departure was made over the high seas, to
the Governor.
(5) Nothing in the Rules of the Air shall exonerate
any person from the consequences of any neglect
in the use of lights or
signals or of the neglect of any precautions required by ordinary aviation
practice or by the special
circumstances of the case.
Power to prohibit or restrict flying
85. - (1)
(a) Where the Governor deems it
necessary in the public interest to restrict or prohibit flying by reason of:
(i) the intended gathering or
movement of a large number of persons;
(ii) the intended holding of an aircraft race or contest or of a flying
display; or
(iii) national defence or any other reason affecting the public interest;
the Governor may make regulations
prohibiting, restricting or imposing conditions on flight:
(aa) by any aircraft, whether or
not registered in the Territory, in any airspace over the Territory; and
(bb) by aircraft registered in the Territory, in any other airspace, being
airspace in respect of which the Government of the
Territory has in pursuance
of international arrangements undertaken to provide navigation services for
aircraft.
(b) Regulations made under this
article may apply either generally or in relation to any class of aircraft.
(2) It shall be an offence
to contravene or permit the contravention of or fail to comply with any
regulations
made hereunder.
(3) If the commander of an aircraft becomes aware
that the aircraft is flying in contravention of any
regulations which have
been made for any of the reasons referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(iii) he
shall, unless otherwise instructed
pursuant to paragraph (4), cause the
aircraft to leave the area to which the regulations relate by flying to the
least possible
extent over such area and the aircraft shall not begin to
descend while over such an area.
(4) The commander of an aircraft flying either within
an area for which regulations have been made
for any of the reasons referred
to in paragraph (1)(a)(iii) or within airspace notified as a Danger Area
shall forthwith comply
with instructions given by radio by the appropriate
air traffic control unit or by, or on behalf of, the person responsible for
safety within the relevant airspace.
Balloons, kites, airships, gliders and parascending parachutes
86. - (1) The provisions of this article
shall apply only to or in relation to aircraft within the Territory.
(2)
(a) A balloon in captive or
tethered flight shall not be flown within 60 metres of any vessel, vehicle or
structure except with
the permission of the person in charge of any such
vessel, vehicle or structure.
(b)
(i) a glider or parascending
parachute shall not be launched by winch and cable or by ground tow to a
height or more than 60
metres above ground level;
(ii) a balloon in captive flight shall not be flown within the aerodrome
traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the notified
operating hours of
that aerodrome;
(iii) a balloon in captive or tethered flight shall not be flown at a height
measured to the top of the balloon of more than
60 metres above ground level;
(iv) a kite shall not be flown at a height of more than 30 metres above
ground level within the aerodrome traffic zone of a
notified aerodrome during
the notified operating hours of that aerodrome;
(v) a kite shall not be flown at a height of more than 60 metres above ground
level; and
(vi) a parascending parachute shall not be launched by winch and cable or by
ground tow within the aerodrome traffic zone of
a notified aerodrome during
the notified operating hours of that aerodrome;
without the permission in writing
of the Governor and in accordance with any conditions subject to which that
permission may
have been granted.
(3) An uncontrollable
balloon in captive or released flight shall not be flown in airspace notified
for the purposes of this paragraph without the permission in writing of the
Governor and in accordance with any conditions subject
to which that
permission may have been granted.
(4) A controllable balloon shall not be flown in free
controlled flight:
(a) within airspace notified for
the purposes of this paragraph; or
(b) within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the
notified operating hours of that aerodrome;
except during the day and in visual meteorological
conditions.
(5) A controllable balloon shall not be flown in
tethered flight:
(a) within airspace notified for
the purposes of this paragraph; or
(b) within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome;
except with the permission of the appropriate air
traffic control unit and in accordance with any conditions subject to which
that permission may have been granted.
(6) A balloon when in captive flight shall be
securely moored and shall not be left unattended unless
it is fitted with a
device which ensures its automatic deflation if it breaks free of its
moorings.
(7) An airship with a capacity exceeding 3,000 cubic
metres shall not be moored other than at a notified
aerodrome except with the
permission in writing of the Governor and in accordance with any conditions
subject to which that
permission may have been granted.
(8) An airship with a capacity not exceeding 3,000
cubic metres, unless it is moored on a notified
aerodrome, shall not be
moored:
(a) within 2 km of a congested
area; or
(b) within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome except with the
permission in writing of the Governor and in
accordance with any conditions
subject to which that permission may have been granted.
(9) An airship when moored
in the open shall be securely moored and shall not be left unattended.
(10)
(a) A person shall not cause or
permit a group of small balloons exceeding 1,000 in number to be
simultaneously released at
a single site wholly or partly within the
aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the notified operating
hours
of that aerodrome unless that person has given to the Governor not less
than 28 days previous notice in writing of the release.
(b) A person shall not cause or permit a group of small balloons exceeding
2,000 but not exceeding, 10,000 in number to be
simultaneously released at a
single site:
(i) within airspace notified for
the purposes of this sub-paragraph without the permission in writing of the
Governor; or
(ii) within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the
notified operating hours of that aerodrome without
the permission in writing
of the Governor;
in either case other than in
accordance with any conditions subject to which such a permission may have
been granted.
(c) A person shall not cause or permit a group of small balloons greater than
10,000 in number to be simultaneously released
at a single site except with
the permission in writing of the Governor and in accordance with any
conditions subject to which
such a permission may have been granted.
(d) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) "simultaneously
released at a single site" shall mean the
release of a specified number
of balloons during a period not exceeding 15 minutes from within an area not
exceeding 1 km square.
(11) For the purposes of
this article "a notified aerodrome" is an aerodrome notified for
the purposes of rule 39 of the Rules of the Air and the "notified
operating hours" means the times notified in respect
of an aerodrome
during which that rule applies.
Regulation of small aircraft
87. - (1) A person shall not cause or permit
any article or animal (whether or not attached to a parachute) to be dropped
from a small aircraft so as to endanger persons or property.
(2) The person in charge of a small aircraft which
weighs more than 7 kg without its fuel but including
any articles of
equipment installed in or attached to the aircraft at the commencement of its
flight shall not fly such an
aircraft:
(a) unless the person in charge of
the aircraft has reasonably satisfied himself that the flight can safely be
made;
(b) in Class A, C, D or E airspace unless the permission of the appropriate
air traffic control unit has been obtained;
(c) within an aerodrome traffic zone during the notified hours of watch of
the air traffic control unit (if any) at that aerodrome
unless the permission
of any such air traffic control unit has been obtained;
(d) at a height exceeding 400 ft above the surface unless it is flying in
airspace described in sub-paragraphs (b) or (c) and
in accordance with the
requirements thereof; or
(e) for aerial work purposes other than in accordance with a permission
issued by the Governor which may be issued subject
to such conditions as the
Governor thinks fit.
PART IX
Air Traffic Services
Requirement for approval for the provision of air traffic services
88. No person in charge of the provision of an air
traffic control service shall provide such a service otherwise than under and
in accordance with the terms of an approval granted to him by the Governor,
and the Governor shall grant an approval if he is
satisfied that the
applicant is competent, having regard to his organisation, staffing,
equipment, maintenance and other arrangements,
to provide a service which is
safe for use by aircraft.
Manual of Air Traffic Services
89. A person shall not provide an air traffic control
service at any place unless:
(a) the service is provided in
accordance with the standards and procedures specified in a manual of air
traffic services in
respect of that place;
(b) the manual is produced to the Governor within a reasonable time after a
request for its production is made by the Governor;
and
(c) such amendments or additions have been made to the manual as the Governor
may from time to time require.
Provision of air traffic services
90. - (1) In the case of an aerodrome (other
than a Government aerodrome) in respect of which there is equipment for
providing holding aid, let-down aid or approach aid by radio or radar, the
person in charge of the aerodrome shall:
(a) inform the Governor in advance
of the periods during and times at which any such equipment is to be in
operation for the
purpose of providing such aid as is specified by the said
person; and
(b) during any period and at such times as are notified, cause an approach
control service to be provided.
(2) The Governor may direct
that there shall be provided in respect of any aerodrome (other than a
Government
aerodrome) such air traffic control service, aerodrome flight
information service or means of two-way radio communication as the
Governor
considers appropriate in respect thereof. The Governor may specify in the
direction the periods during and the times
at which such a service or such
means shall be provided and the person in charge of the aerodrome shall cause
such a service
or such means to be provided in accordance with any such
direction.
(3) Obligations to cause an air traffic control
service to be provided arising under paragraph (1)
or (2) are without
prejudice to each other.
Use of radio call signs at aerodromes
91. The person in charge of an aerodrome provided with
means of two-way radio communication shall not cause or permit any call sign
to be used for a purpose other than a purpose for which that call sign has
been notified.
Licensing of air traffic controllers and student air traffic controllers
92. - (1)
(a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b),
the Governor shall grant a licence subject to such conditions as he thinks
fit to any person
to act as an air traffic controller or as a student air
traffic controller upon his being satisfied that the applicant is a fit
person to hold the licence and is qualified by reason of his knowledge,
experience, competence, skill and physical and mental
fitness so to act, and
for that purpose the applicant shall furnish such evidence and undergo such
examinations and tests (including
in particular medical examinations) and
undertake such courses of training, as the Governor may require of him.
(b) The Governor shall not grant:
(i) a student air traffic
controller's licence to any person under the age of 18 years; or
(ii) an air traffic controller's licence to any person under the age of 20
years.
(2)
(a) Subject to article 81 of this
Order, a licence to act as an air traffic controller or a student air traffic
controller shall
remain in force for the period indicated in the licence and
may be renewed by the Governor from time to time, upon his being satisfied
that the applicant is a fit person and is qualified as aforesaid.
(b) If no period is indicated in the licence, it shall remain in force,
subject as aforesaid, for the lifetime of the holder.
(3) The Governor may include
in an air traffic controller's licence, subject to such conditions as he
thinks fit and upon his being satisfied that the applicant is qualified as
aforesaid to act in the capacity to which the rating
relates, a rating of any
of the classes set forth in Schedule 9 to this Order specifying the type of
air traffic control service
which the holder of the licence is competent to
provide and such a rating shall be deemed to form part of the licence.
(4)
(a) The holder of an air traffic
controller's licence shall not be entitled to exercise the privileges of a
rating contained
in the licence at any place for any sector or with any type
of radar equipment unless the licence includes a valid certificate
of
competence in respect of that rating which is appropriate to that place or
sector and that equipment (if any) which certificate
complies with
sub-paragraph (b).
(b) A valid certificate of competence shall not be appropriate to the
exercise of the privileges of a rating at any place or
for any sector or with
any type of radar equipment unless the certificate:
(i) specifies that place or sector
and that type of radar equipment (if any) with the aid of which the services
is to be provided;
(ii) certifies that the person signing the certificate is satisfied that on a
date specified in the certificate the holder
of the licence, of which the
certificate forms part, has passed an appropriate test of his ability to
exercise the privileges
of the rating at the place or for the sector and with
the type or radar equipment, if any, specified in the certificate; and
(iii) specifies the date on which it was signed.
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