Aviation activityU.K.
1.—(1) An aviation activity consists of any of the following activities other than excluded flights—
(a)a flight departing from an aerodrome situated in the United Kingdom and arriving in an aerodrome situated—
(i)in the United Kingdom;
(ii)in an EEA State;
(iii)in Gibraltar;
(iv)on an offshore structure in the UK sector of the continental shelf or an offshore structure in the continental shelf of an EEA state;
(b)a flight arriving in an aerodrome situated in the United Kingdom from an aerodrome situated in Gibraltar.
[F1(c)a flight departing from an aerodrome situated in Great Britain and arriving in an aerodrome situated in Switzerland.]
(2) In this paragraph a reference to a flight departing from an aerodrome situated in the United Kingdom and arriving in an aerodrome situated in an EEA state does not include a reference to a flight departing from an aerodrome situated in the United Kingdom and arriving in an aerodrome situated in an outermost region.
(3) In this paragraph, “continental shelf of an EEA state” means an area beyond the territorial sea of an EEA state, within which rights with respect to the seabed and subsoil and their natural resources are exercisable by that EEA state.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(c) inserted (E.W.S.) (1.1.2023) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/1336), arts. 1(2)(a), 5
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 12.11.2020, see art. 2(1)