{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-environmental-standards-order-2002/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-environmental-standards-order-2002/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Environmental Standards) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-environmental-standards-order-2002",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Requirement for noise certificate",
  "text": "(1) This article shall apply to every aircraft of a description specified in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2.\n(2) An aircraft to which this article applies shall not land or take off in the United Kingdom unless:\n(a) there is in force in respect of that aircraft a noise certificate:\n(i) issued by the CAA in accordance with article 5; or\n(ii) in the case of a microlight aeroplane:\n(aa) issued or validated by the competent authority of the country in which the aircraft is registered, being an EEA State which applies standards which are substantially equivalent to those required for the issue of a noise certificate by the CAA; or\n(bb) issued or validated by the competent authority of the country in which the aircraft is registered, being a country prescribed as one which applies standards which in the opinion of the Secretary of State are substantially equivalent to those required for the issue of a noise certificate by the CAA; or\n(iii) (except in the case of a microlight aeroplane) issued or validated by the competent authority of the Contracting State in which the aircraft is registered in accordance with the Chicago Convention; and\n(b) any conditions subject to which the certificate was issued or validated are complied with.\n(3) The foregoing prohibition shall not apply to:\n(a) an aircraft flying in accordance with the “A Conditions” or the “B Conditions” set forth in Part A of Schedule 3 to the Air Navigation Order 2000; or\n(b) an aircraft landing or taking-off at a prescribed place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/798/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:09:42.321564+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}