{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-isle-of-man-order-2007/article-57",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1115",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Isle of Man) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-isle-of-man-order-2007",
  "path": "article/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Mandatory reporting of occurrences",
  "text": "(1) The objective of this article is to contribute to the improvement of air safety by ensuring that relevant information on safety is reported, collected, stored, protected and disseminated.\n(2) The sole objective of occurrence reporting is the prevention of accidents and incidents and not to attribute blame or liability.\n(3) This article applies to occurrences which endanger or which, if not corrected, would endanger an aircraft, its occupants or any other person.\n(4) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (3), a list of examples of these occurrences is set out in Annexes I and II (and their Appendices) of Directive 2003/42/EC of 13th June 2003 on occurrence reporting in civil aviation.\n(5) Every person listed below shall report to the Department any event which constitutes an occurrence for the purposes of paragraph (3) and which comes to his attention in the exercise of his functions—\n(a) the operator and the commander of a turbine-powered aircraft which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department;\n(b) a person who carries on the business of maintaining or modifying an aircraft, which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department, and a person who carries on the business of maintaining or modifying any equipment or part of such an aircraft;\n(c) a person who signs a certificate of release to service in respect of an aircraft, which has a certificate of airworthiness issued by the Department, and a person who signs a certificate of release to service in respect of any equipment or part of such an aircraft;\n(d) a licensee and a manager of a licensed aerodrome.\n(6) Reports of occurrences shall be made within such time, by such means and containing such information as may be prescribed and shall be presented in such form as the Department may in any particular case approve.\n(7) A person listed in paragraph (5) shall make a report to the Department within such time, by such means, and containing such information as the Department may specify in a notice in writing served upon him, being information which is in his possession or control and which relates to an occurrence which has been reported by him or another person to the Department in accordance with this article.\n(8) A person shall not make any report under this article if he knows or has reason to believe that the report is false in any particular.\n(9) The Department shall put in place a mechanism to collect, evaluate, process and store occurrences reported in accordance with paragraphs (5) to (7).\n(10) The Department and the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents shall use any information received in accordance with the terms of this article solely for the purposes set out in this article.\n(11) Without prejudice to the rules of criminal law, no proceedings shall be instituted in respect of unpremeditated or inadvertent infringements of the law which come to the attention of the relevant authorities only because they have been reported under this article, except in cases of gross negligence.\n(12) The provisions in paragraphs (10) and (11) apply without prejudice to the right of access to information by judicial authorities.\n(13) Where a report is made voluntarily to the Department of an perceived actual or potential hazard which is not required to be reported under the system of mandatory reporting, it shall be subjected to a process of disidentification by it where the person making the report requests that his identity is not recorded on a database.\n(14) The Department shall ensure that relevant safety information deriving from the analysis of reports, which have been subjected to disidentification, are stored and made available to all parties so that they can be used for improving safety in aviation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L167, 4.7.2003, p. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1115/article/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:39.258489+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."
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