The Air Navigation Order 1995

Licensing of flight information service officers

87.—(1) (a) Subject to sub-paragraph (b), the Authority shall grant a licence subject to such conditions as it thinks fit to any person to act as a flight information service officer upon its being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person to hold the licence and is qualified by reason of his knowledge, experience, competence, skill, physical and mental fitness so to act, and for that purpose the applicant shall furnish such evidence and undergo such examinations and tests and undertake such courses of training as the Authority may require of him.

(b) The Authority shall not grant such a licence to any person under the age of 18 years.

(2) Subject to the provisions of article 71 of this Order, a licence to act as a flight information service officer shall remain in force for the period indicated in the licence and may be renewed by the Authority from time to time, upon its being satisfied that the applicant is a fit person and is qualified as aforesaid. If no period is indicated in the licence, it shall remain in force, subject as aforesaid for the lifetime of the holder.

(3) (a) The holder of a flight information service officer’s licence shall not be entitled to provide a flight information service at a place unless that place has been specified in the licence by a person authorised by the Authority for the purpose and the licence has been validated in respect of that place by a person authorised for the purpose by the Authority.

(b) If, throughout any period of 180 days the holder of the licence has not at any time provided such a service at a particular place, the licence shall cease to be valid for that place at the end of that period until the licence has been revalidated in respect of that place by a person authorised by the Authority for the purpose.

(7) A licence to act as a flight information service officer shall not be valid unless the holder of the licence has signed his name thereon in ink with his ordinary signature.

(8) Every holder of a flight information service officer’s licence shall upon such occasions as the Authority may require, submit himself to such examinations and tests and furnish such evidence as to his knowledge, experience, competence and skill and undergo such courses of training as the Authority may require.