# The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order 2024, Article 6: Issue of noise certificate by the Governor


(1) Subject to payment of any prescribed fee, the Governor must issue a noise certificate in respect of a noise regulated aircraft registered in the Territory if the Governor is satisfied that the aircraft complies with the applicable noise standards.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an applicant for a noise certificate must furnish such evidence, and submit the aircraft to such inspections, flying trials and other tests of the aircraft, as the Governor may require.
(3) A noise certificate issued under paragraph (1) must—
(a) certify compliance with the applicable noise standards in the form required in Attachment G of Volume 1 of Annex 16;
(b) specify the date on which the certificate takes effect;
(c) impose a condition that specifies the maximum certificated take-off mass at which the aircraft may take off.
(4) The Governor may issue a noise certificate under paragraph (1) subject to such conditions as the Governor thinks fit.
(5) In paragraph (3)(c), “maximum certificated take-off mass” means, in relation to an aircraft, the maximum total mass of the aircraft and its contents at which the aircraft may take off anywhere in the world, in the most favourable circumstances and in accordance with the certificate of airworthiness in force in respect of that aircraft.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/378/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-environmental-standards-order-2024/article-6
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