The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order 2024

Extra-territorial effect of the Order

27.—(1) Insofar as the provisions for this Order apply to aircraft registered in the Territory, they apply to such aircraft wherever they may be.

(2) Insofar as the provisions of this Order apply to other aircraft, they apply to such aircraft when they are within the Territory.

(3) Insofar as the provisions of this Order prohibit, require or regulate the doing of anything by the pilot-in-command or operator of any aircraft registered in the Territory, they apply to the pilot-in-command or operator wherever they may be.

(4) Insofar as the provisions of this Order prohibit, require or regulate the doing of anything in relation to any aircraft registered in the Territory by persons other than the pilot-in-command or operator of the aircraft, where such persons are United Kingdom nationals, they apply to those persons wherever they may be.

(5) Nothing in this article is to be construed as extending to make any person guilty of an offence in any case in which it is provided by section 3(1) of the British Nationality Act 1948(1) that that person is not to be guilty of an offence.

(6) In this article, “United Kingdom national” means a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British National (overseas), a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1981(2) or a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.

(1)

1948 c. 56. Section 3 was amended by section 314(2) of, and paragraph 22 of Schedule 13 to, the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) and by section 52(6) of, and Schedule 7 to, the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61).

(2)

1981 c. 61.