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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 1607

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 2001

  Made 18th April 2001 
  Coming into Force 11th May 2001 

Whereas the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions deems it necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in the vicinity of certain nuclear installations specified in the Schedule hereto:

     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations [a]2001 and shall come into force on 11th May 2001.

     2. The Regulations specified in the First Schedule hereto are hereby revoked.

     3.  - (1) This regulation applies to each of the nuclear installations specified in Column 1 of the Second Schedule hereto each of which for the purpose of this regulation shall be taken to comprise an area bounded by a circle of the radius specified in Column 2 of the said Schedule opposite its name centred on the position so specified in Column 3 of the said Schedule.

    (2) Subject to paragraph (3), an aircraft shall not fly over a nuclear installation to which this regulation applies below such height above mean sea level as is specified in Column 4 of the said Schedule opposite its name.

    (3) Nothing in this regulation shall prohibit:



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions


Ian McBrayne
Head of Civil Aviation Division, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

18th April 2001



THE FIRST SCHEDULE
Regulation 2


REVOCATIONS


Regulations Revoked References
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 1988 S.I. 1988/1138
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 S.I. 1992/1351
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1992 S.I. 1992/2085



THE SECOND SCHEDULE
Regulation 3

Column (1) Column (2) Column (3) Column (4)
Name of Nuclear Installation Radius in Nautical Miles Position Height in Feet
Aldermaston 1½ 512203N 0010847W 2,400
Burghfield 1 512424N 0010125W 2,400
Capenhurst 2 531550N 0025708W 2,200
Chapelcross Cross 2 550059N 0031334W 2,400
Coulport/Faslane 2 560331N 0045159W 2,200
Devonport ½ 502326N 0041119W 2,000
Dounreay 2 583435N 0034434W 2,100
Harwell 2 513430N 0011905W 2,500
Rosyth ½ 560121N 0032709W 2,000
Sellafield 2 542505N 0032944W 2,200
Springfields 2 534634N 0024815W 2,100
Winfrith 1 504052N 0021535W 1,000


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations replace the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 1988 as amended. In addition to some minor drafting amendments, the restricted area in respect of Winfrith is reduced to a radius of 1 nautical mile and a height of 1,000 feet above mean sea level and the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude are given by reference to the World Geodetic Survey 1984.

Notes:

 [1] S.I. 2000/1562.back


[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 1, regulation 1, after "(Nuclear Installations) Regulations": delete "2000", substitute "2001". back


ISBN 0 11 029410 6


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 4 May 2001

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