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Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 192

Civil Aviation

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Russian Aircraft) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

Made

at 7.57 p.m. on 25th February 2022

Coming into force

with immediate effect

The Secretary of State has previously decided it is necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in the area specified in regulation 2 by aircraft on scheduled services which are owned, chartered or operated by a person connected with Russia, or which are registered in Russia.

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Russian Aircraft) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and they come into force with immediate effect.

Amendment of the Regulations

2.  The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Russian Aircraft) Regulations 2022(2) are amended by deleting in regulation 2(1) “on a scheduled service”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Courts

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

At 7.57 p.m. on 25th February 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Russian Aircraft) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/183). The amendment extends the restriction of flying to include all aircraft which are Russian owned, chartered or operated by a person connected to Russia, or which is registered in Russia.

Full details of this Statutory Instrument will be promulgated by Notice to Aviation (NOTAM).

(1)

S.I. 2016/765, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.