The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow) Regulations 2021
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2021/1134 |
| Year | 2021 |
2021 No. 1134
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow) Regulations 2021
Made 8October 2021
Coming into force 25October 2021
The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict the flying of unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of the Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow by reason of the security preparations associated with the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) which is scheduled to take place there.
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) (Scottish Event
Campus, Glasgow) Regulations 2021 and they come into force on 25th October 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 2259 hours on 25th October 2021 and 2259 hours on
30th October 2021, no unmanned aircraft is to fly below 2,000 feet above mean sea level within
the area bounded by a circle having a radius of 2 nautical miles whose centre is at 555151N
0041833W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any unmanned aircraft operating with the permission of the
Police Scotland Aviation Safety and Security Unit.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
David J Best
Grade 7
8th October 2021 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2016/765, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
(b) Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is one hour behind British Summer Time (BST).
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose restrictions on the flying of unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of the
Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow during the security preparations for COP26. Police Scotland
considers that the flying of unmanned aircraft should be restricted in the vicinity of the Campus
for reasons of public safety and security. The restrictions have been agreed by the Civil Aviation
Authority and the...
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