The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2001

Extra-territorial effect of the Order

123.—(1) Except where the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this Order:

(a) insofar as they apply (whether by express reference or otherwise) to aircraft registered in the Territory, shall apply to such aircraft wherever they may be;

(b) insofar as they apply as aforesaid to other aircraft shall apply to such other aircraft when they are within the Territory;

(c) insofar as they prohibit, require or regulate (whether by express reference or otherwise) the doing of anything by persons in or by any of the crew of, any aircraft registered in the Territory, shall apply to such persons and crew, wherever they may be, and

(d) insofar as they prohibit, require or regulate as aforesaid the doing of anything in relation to any aircraft registered in the Territory by other persons shall, where such persons are Commonwealth citizens, British protected persons or citizens of the Republic of Ireland, apply to them wherever they may be.

(2) Nothing in this article shall be construed as extending to make any person guilty of an offence in any case in which it is provided by section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948(1) (which limits the criminal liability of certain persons who are not citizens of the United Kingdom and colonies) that that person shall not be guilty of an offence.

(1)

1948 c. 56.