The Air Navigation Order 2009

Issue and validity of certificates of validation of permits to fly or equivalent documents

24.—(1) In this article, a certificate of validation means a certificate authorising an aircraft registered elsewhere than in the United Kingdom to fly in the United Kingdom.

(2) The CAA must issue a certificate of validation if it is satisfied that the aircraft has a permit to fly or equivalent document issued or validated by the competent authority of the country in which the aircraft is registered and the authority applies standards which are substantially equivalent to those required for the issue of a permit to fly by the CAA.

(3) An aircraft flying in accordance with a certificate of validation must not fly for the purpose of—

(a) commercial air transport;

(b) public transport; or

(c) aerial work other than aerial work which consists of flights for the purpose of flying displays, associated practice, test and positioning flights or the exhibition or demonstration of the aircraft.

(4) The CAA may issue a certificate of validation subject to such conditions relating to the airworthiness, operation or maintenance of the aircraft as it thinks fit.