Minimum equipment requirements
21.—(1) The CAA may grant in respect of any aircraft or class of aircraft registered in the United Kingdom a permission permitting such aircraft to commence a flight in specified circumstances notwithstanding that any specified item of equipment required by or under this Order to be carried in the circumstances of the intended flight is not carried or is not in a fit condition for use.
(2) An aircraft registered in the United Kingdom shall not commence a flight if any of the equipment required by or under this Order to be carried in the circumstances of the intended flight is not carried or is not in a fit condition for use unless—
(a)the aircraft does so under and in accordance with the terms of a permission under this article which has been granted to the operator; and
(b)in the case of an aircraft to which article 38 or 39 applies, the operations manual or police operations manual respectively contains particulars of that permission.