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200.—(1) The CAA must grant a flight information service officer licence to any person aged 18 years or more if it is satisfied that the applicant—
(a)is a fit person to hold the licence; and
(b)is qualified by having the knowledge, experience, competence, skill and physical and mental fitness to act in the capacity to which the licence relates.
(2) The applicant must supply such evidence and undergo such examinations and tests and undertake such courses of training as the CAA may require.
(3) The licence may be issued subject to such conditions as the CAA thinks fit.
(4) A licence to act as a flight information service officer—
(a)may be renewed by the CAA from time to time, when it is satisfied that the applicant is a fit person and is qualified in accordance with paragraph (1);
(b)remains in force, subject to article 253, for the period indicated in the licence or if no period is indicated, for the lifetime of the holder.
(5) A flight information service officer’s licence does not authorise the giving of a flight information service at an aerodrome or area control centre unless—
(a)that aerodrome or area control centre has been specified in the licence by a person authorised by the CAA for the purpose; and
(b)the licence has been validated for that aerodrome or area control centre by a person authorised for the purpose by the CAA.
(6) If, throughout any period of 90 days, the holder of the licence has not at any time given such a service at a particular aerodrome or area control centre, the licence ceases to be valid for that aerodrome or area control centre at the end of that period until the licence has been revalidated for that aerodrome or area control centre by a person authorised by the CAA for the purpose.
(7) A licence to act as a flight information service officer is not valid unless it has been signed by the holder in ink or indelible pencil.
(8) Every holder of a flight information service officer’s licence must, on such occasions as the CAA may require, submit to such examinations and tests and supply such evidence of the holder’s knowledge, experience, competence and skill and undergo such courses of training as the CAA may require.
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