The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Remembrance Sunday) Regulations 2021
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2021/1135 |
| Year | 2021 |
2021 No. 1135
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Remembrance Sunday) Regulations 2021
Made 8October 2021
Coming into force 14November 2021
The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict flying in the vicinity of Central London by reason of the holding of the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(a).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Remembrance
Sunday) Regulations 2021 and they come into force on 14th November 2021.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 3(1) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time(b).
Restricted airspace
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), between 1000 hours and 1230 hours on 14th November 2021
no aircraft is to fly below 2,500 feet above mean sea level within the area bounded by a circle
having a radius of 2.5 nautical miles whose centre is at 513009N 0000734W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any aircraft—
(a) operating by or on behalf of—
(i) the National Police Air Service,
(ii) the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, or
(iii) the Maritime and Coastguard Agency,
(b) making an approach to Runway 09 at London City Airport at a height of not less than
1,500 feet above mean sea level and to the east of a line running true north to true south
through 513030N 0000514W (London Bridge), whilst under the control of the air traffic
control unit at London City Airport or London Terminal Control, Swanwick, or
(c) flying in accordance with the permission of the Metropolitan Police Service.
(a) S.I. 2016/765, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
(b) Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
David J Best
Grade 7
8th October 2021 Department for Transport
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose restrictions on flying above Central London during the Remembrance
Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph which is scheduled to take place on 14th November 2021. The
Civil Aviation Authority and the Department for Transport have agreed that flying should be
restricted in the vicinity of the event...
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