{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2002/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2002/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-amendment-order-2002",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Lighting of En Route Obstacles",
  "text": "After article 109 there shall be inserted:\n“Lighting of en-route obstacles\n109A (1) This article shall apply to any en-route obstacle which for the purposes of this article means any building, structure or erection which is 150 metres or more above ground level other than any such building, structure or erection which is in the vicinity of a licensed aerodrome.\n(2) The person in charge of an en-route obstacle shall ensure that it is fitted with medium intensity steady red lights positioned as close as possible to the top of the obstacle and at intermediate levels spaced so far as practicable equally between the top lights and ground level with an interval not exceeding 52 metres.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the person in charge of an en-route obstacle shall ensure that, by night, the lights required to be fitted by this article shall be displayed.\n(4) In the event of the failure of any light which is required by this article to be displayed by night the person in charge shall repair or replace the light as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(5) At each level on the obstacle where lights are required to be fitted, sufficient lights shall be fitted and arranged so as to show when displayed in all directions.\n(6) In this article, “medium intensity steady red light” means a light which complies with the characteristics described for a medium intensity type C light as specified in Volume 1 (Aerodrome Design and Operations) of Annex 14 (Third edition November 1999) to the Chicago Convention.\n(7) In any particular case the CAA may direct that an en-route obstacle shall be fitted with and shall display such additional lights in such positions and at such times as it may specify.\n(8) (a) This article shall not apply to any en-route obstacle in respect of which a permission has been granted by the CAA to the person in charge provided any conditions specified in such a permission are complied with.\n(b) A permission may be granted for the purposes of this article in respect of a particular case or class of cases or generally and subject to such conditions as the CAA thinks fit.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/264/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:24.379106+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}