Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 1990
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1990 No. 2154
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 1990
Made 31th October 1990
Laid before Parliament 8th November 1990
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of October 1990
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by sections 60 (other than subsection (3)(r)), 61 and 102 of the Civil Aviation Act 19821and 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 and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 1990 and shall come into force for the purposes of article 2(5) and (21) on 1st February 1991, for the purposes of article 2(8) and (25) on 1st October 1991 and for all other purposes on 1st December 1990.
Amendment of the Air Navigation Order 1989
2. The Air Navigation Order 19892shall be amended as follows:
(1) For article 5(3)(a) there shall be substituted the following:
“(a)
“(a) that the aircraft is registered in a country in which it is not in fact registered: Provided that marks approved by the Authority for the purposes of flight in accordance with the “B Conditions” contained in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be deemed not to indicate that the aircraft is so registered; or”.
(2) In article 8, after paragraph (7) there shall be added:
“8 Nothing in this Order shall oblige the Authority 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 Authority may specify (either generally or in a particular case or class of cases).”
(3) In article 31(7) for the words “Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Control” there shall be substituted the words “Rules of the Air”.
(4) For the heading to article 32 there shall be substituted “Public transport aircraft not registered in the United Kingdom—aerodrome operating minima”.
(5) After article 32 there shall be added the following:
“Non-public transport aircraft—aerodrome operating minima
32A.—(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 below 1000 feet above the height of 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)
(a) continue an approach to landing on such a runway by flying below the relevant specified decision height; or
(b)
(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.”
(6) In the heading to article 69, and in article 69(1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) for the words “Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Control” there shall be substituted the words “Rules of the Air”.
(7) Article 69(1)(d) shall be deleted and at the end of article 69(1)(c) there shall be added the word “and”.
(8) After article 69 there shall be added the following:
“Provision of Air Traffic Services
69A.—(1) No person shall provide an air traffic control service otherwise than under and in accordance with the terms of an approval granted to him by the Authority, and the Authority shall grant an approval to any person applying therefor if it is satisfied that the person is competent, having regard to his organisation, staffing, equipment, maintenance and other arrangements, to provide a service which is safe for use by aircraft.”
(9) After article 69A(1) there shall be inserted the following:
“2 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 Authority 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 air traffic control service to be provided for any aircraft which is flying in, or in the vicinity of, the aerodrome traffic zone whether or not it is flying by visual reference to the surface.
3 The Authority 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 Authority considers appropriate in respect thereof. The Authority 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.
4 Obligations to cause an air traffic control service to be provided arising under paragraph (2) or (3) are without prejudice to each other.
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