{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-93",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016/article-93.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/765",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-order-2016",
  "path": "article/93",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "93",
  "heading": "Release of small balloons",
  "text": "(1) A person must not cause or permit—\n(a) a group of small balloons of more than 1,000 in number to be simultaneously released at a single site wholly or partly within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the notified operating hours of that aerodrome unless that person has given to the CAA at least 28 days previous notice in writing of the release;\n(b) a group of small balloons of more than 2,000 but not more than 10,000 in number to be simultaneously released at a single site—\n(i) within airspace notified for the purposes of this sub-paragraph; or\n(ii) within the aerodrome traffic zone of a notified aerodrome during the notified operating hours of that aerodrome,\nexcept with the permission of the CAA; and\n(c) a group of small balloons greater than 10,000 in number to be simultaneously released at a single site except with the permission of the CAA.\n(2) In this article, a specified number of balloons counts as “simultaneously released at a single site” if released during a period of not more than 15 minutes from within an area not more than 1km square.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 93(2) substituted (14.12.2017) by The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1112), arts. 1, 23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/765/article/93",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:35.381803+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."
  }
}