{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-265D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-265D.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/765",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016",
  "path": "article/265D",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "265D",
  "heading": "Minimum age requirements: UAS operators and remote pilots",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) A UAS operator must not cause or permit an unmanned aircraft other than a tethered small unmanned aircraft to be flown by a remote pilot who does not meet the minimum age for operating a UAS required by Article 9 of the Unmanned Aircraft Implementing Regulation, subject to paragraphs (1) and (2).\n(4) A UAS operator who contravenes paragraph (3) is guilty of an offence.\n(5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) cease to have effect on IP completion day.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 265A-265F inserted (31.12.2020) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1555), arts. 1(2), 9 (with art. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 265D(1) omitted (4.11.2024) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/990), arts. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 265D(2) omitted (4.11.2024) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/990), arts. 1(2), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 265D(6) omitted (1.1.2026) by virtue of The Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 1(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 265D(7) omitted (4.11.2024) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/990), arts. 1(2), 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/765/article/265D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:35.381803+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."
}