Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021

Provision by UAS operators of information about remote pilots U.K.

4 (1) A constable may exercise the power conferred by this paragraph in relation to a person (P) if the constable— U.K.

(a) has reasonable grounds for believing that—

(i) a flight by an unmanned aircraft is taking place or has taken place, and

(ii) P is or was the UAS operator of the unmanned aircraft for the flight, and

(b) has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a relevant competency requirement is or was applicable as respects the remote pilot for the unmanned aircraft and the flight.

(2) The constable may require P to provide such information as the constable considers reasonable as to the identity of the person or persons who are or were the remote pilot or remote pilots of the unmanned aircraft for the flight.

(3) In this paragraph “relevant competency requirement” has the same meaning as in paragraph 1.

(4) P is guilty of an offence if—

(a) P fails to comply with a requirement imposed by a constable under this paragraph to provide information as to the identity of a person,

(b) P is or was the UAS operator of the unmanned aircraft for the flight,

(c) the relevant competency requirement which the constable had reasonable grounds for suspecting is or was applicable as respects the remote pilot for the unmanned aircraft and the flight is or was so applicable, and

(d) at the time when the constable imposed the requirement, P could have provided information of the kind which the constable required P to provide.

(5) A person who is guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

(6) Paragraph 10 includes a defence to the offence under this paragraph.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 9 in force at 29.4.2021 for specified purposes and 29.6.2021 for all other purposes, see s. 21(1)(a)(2)