Power to investigate
10.—(1) Notwithstanding the obligations to investigate imposed by paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 5 of Regulation 996/2010 and by Chapter 5 of Annex 13, the Chief Inspector may cause a safety investigation to be conducted in accordance with Regulation 996/2010, Annex 13 and these Regulations where—
(a)an accident, a serious incident or any other incident occurs in or over the United Kingdom;
(b)that accident, serious incident or incident involves any aircraft, including—
(i)an aircraft to which the obligation in paragraph 1 of Article 5 of Regulation 996/2010 does not apply; or
(ii)an aircraft engaged in military, customs, police or similar services; and
(c)the Chief Inspector expects to draw safety lessons for civil aviation from the safety investigation.
(2) In this regulation “similar services” has the same meaning as in paragraph 3 of Article 3 of Regulation 996/2010.