Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1986

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1986/2120

1986 No. 2120

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1986

4thDecember 1986

11thDecember 1986

1stJanuary 1987

Whereas in pursuance of tariffs approved under the Eurocontrol Convention (a) and under the Multilateral Agreement relating to Route Charges concluded at Brussels on 12th February 1981(a) (being international agreements to which the United Kingdom is a party) the Secretary of State for Transport has determined rates of charges, as specified in the following Regulations, payable to the Eurocontrol Organisation in respect of navigation services provided for aircraft:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of his powers under sections 73 and 74 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(b), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations—

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1986 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1987.

2. The Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations 1984(c) shall be further amended as follows—

(1) For regulation 9 thereof there shall be substituted the following new regulation—

"Exempt Flights

9.— (1) These Regulations shall not apply to the following flights—

(i) flights by military aircraft;

(ii) flights made for the purposes of search and rescue operations;

(a) Cmnd. 8662.

(b) 1982 c.16; section 73(4) was amended by section 3(2) of the Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Act 1983 (c.11).

(c) S.I. 1984/1920, amended by S.I. 1985/160 and 1916.

(iii) flights by aircraft of which the maximum total weight authorised is 5700 kg or less made entirely in accordance with the Visual Flight Rules in the Rules of the Air and Air Traffic Control Regulations 1985(a);

(iv) flights terminating at the aerodrome from which the aircraft has taken off;

(v) flights other than the flights referred to in paragraph (i) of this regulation made by aircraft which are the property of a State (including customs and police aircraft) and which are not made for commercial purposes;

(vi) flights made exclusively for the purpose of checking or testing equipment used or intended to be used as aids to air navigation;

(vii) flights made exclusively for the purpose of instruction or testing of flight crew;

(viii) flights made exclusively for the purpose of enabling an aircraft to qualify for the issue or renewal of a Certificate of Airworthiness or of the validation thereof or the approval of a modification of the aircraft, after an application has been made for such issue, renewal, validation or approval as the case may be;

(ix) flights...

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