{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/article-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000/article-126.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1562",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2000",
  "path": "article/126",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Application of Order to the Crown and visiting forces, etc.",
  "text": "(1) (a) Subject to the following provisions of this article, the provisions of this Order shall apply to or in relation to aircraft belonging to or exclusively employed in the service of Her Majesty as they apply to or in relation to other aircraft.\n(b) For the purposes of such application, the Department or other authority for the time being responsible on behalf of Her Majesty for the management of the aircraft shall be deemed to be the operator of the aircraft and, in the case of an aircraft belonging to Her Majesty, to be the owner of the interest of Her Majesty in the aircraft.\n(c) Nothing in this article shall render liable to any penalty any Department or other authority responsible on behalf of Her Majesty for the management of any aircraft.\n(2) Save as otherwise expressly provided the naval, military and air force authorities and members of any visiting force and any international headquarters and the members thereof and property held or used for the purpose of such a force or headquarters shall be exempt from the provisions of this Order and of any regulations made thereunder to the same extent as if that force or headquarters formed part of the forces of Her Majesty raised in the United Kingdom and for the time being serving there.\n(3) Save as otherwise provided by paragraph (4), article 70(4) and (9), article 71(2)(a), article 84(1)(a) and article 108 of this Order, nothing in this Order shall apply to or in relation to any military aircraft.\n(4) Where a military aircraft is flown by a civilian pilot and is not commanded by a person who is acting in the course of his duty as a member of any of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces or as a member of a visiting force or international headquarters, the following provisions of this Order shall apply on the occasion of that flight, that is to say, articles 63, 64, 65 and 85 and in addition article 84 (so far as applicable) shall apply unless the aircraft is flown in compliance with Military Flying Regulations (Joint Service Publication 318) or Flying Orders to Contractors (Aviation Publication 67) issued by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2905",
      "affecting_title": "The Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1562/article/126",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:39.811318+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."
}