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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 964

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Specified Area) Regulations 2005

  Made 29th March 2005 
  Coming into force 1st April 2005 

Whereas the Secretary of State for Transport deems it necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in the area specified in the Schedule hereto:

     Now therefore, the Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by article 85 of the Air Navigation Order[1] hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Specified Area) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

Flight within specified area
     2. Except with the permission in writing of the Civil Aviation Authority and in accordance with any conditions therein specified a helicopter shall not fly over the area specified in the Schedule below such height as would enable it to alight clear of the area in the event of failure of a power unit.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Charlotte Atkins
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Transport

29th March 2005



SCHEDULE
Regulation 2


THE SPECIFIED AREA


The area bounded by straight lines joining successively the following points:

excluding so much of the bed of the River Thames as lies within that area between the ordinary high water marks on each of its banks.


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Except with the permission of the Civil Aviation Authority a helicopter may not fly over the specified area of Central London unless it would, in the event of an engine failure, be able to land clear of that area.

An RIA has not been prepared.

Notes:

 [1] S.I. 2000/1562 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back


ISBN 0 11 072820 3


 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 26 April 2005

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