The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2001

Equipment of aircraft

14.—(1) An aircraft shall not fly unless it is so equipped as to comply with the law of the country in which it is registered, and to enable lights and markings to be displayed, and signals to be made, in accordance with this Order and any regulations made thereunder.

(2) In the case of any aircraft registered in the Territory the equipment required to be provided (in addition to any other equipment required by or under this Order) shall:

(a) be that specified in such parts of Schedule 4 to this Order as are applicable in the circumstances;

(b) comply with the provisions of that Schedule;

(c) except that specified in paragraph 3 of the said Schedule, be of a type approved by the Governor either generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation to that aircraft; and

(d) be installed in a manner so approved.

(3) In any particular case the Governor may direct that an aircraft registered in the Territory shall carry such additional or special equipment or supplies as he may specify for the purpose of facilitating the navigation of the aircraft, the carrying out of search and rescue operations or the survival of the persons carried in the aircraft.

(4) The equipment carried in compliance with this article shall be so installed or stowed and kept stowed, and so maintained and adjusted as to be readily accessible and capable of being used by the person for whose use it is intended.

(5) (a) The position of equipment provided for emergency use shall be indicated by clear markings in or on the aircraft.

(b) In every public transport aircraft registered in the Territory there shall be provided individually for each passenger or, if the Governor so permits in writing, exhibited in a prominent position in every passenger compartment, a notice which complies with sub-paragraph (c).

(c) (i) The required notice shall be relevant to the aircraft in question;

(ii) The required notice shall contain pictorial instructions on the brace position to be adopted in the event of an emergency landing;

(iii) The required notice shall contain pictorial instructions on the method of use of the safety belts and safety harnesses as appropriate;

(iv) The required notice shall contain pictorial information as to where emergency exits are to be found and instructions as to how they are to be used;

(v) The required notice shall contain pictorial information as to where the lifejackets, escape slides, liferafts and oxygen masks, if required to be provided by paragraph (2), are to be found and instructions as to how they are to be used.

(6) All equipment installed or carried in an aircraft, whether or not in compliance with this article, shall be so installed or stowed and so maintained and adjusted as not to be a source of danger in itself or to impair the airworthiness of the aircraft or the proper functioning of any equipment or services necessary for the safety of the aircraft.

(7) Without prejudice to paragraph (2), all navigational equipment (other than radio apparatus) of any of the following types, namely:

(a) equipment capable of establishing the aircraft’s position in relation to its position at some earlier time by computing and applying the resultant of the acceleration and gravitational forces acting upon it; and

(b) equipment capable of establishing automatically the altitude and relative bearing of selected celestial bodies;

when carried in an aircraft registered in the Territory (whether or not in compliance with this Order or any regulations made thereunder) shall be of a type approved by the Governor either generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation to that aircraft and shall be installed in a manner so approved.

(8) This article shall not apply in relation to radio apparatus except that specified in Schedule 4 to this Order.