{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-131",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-131.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2870",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013",
  "path": "article/131",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "131",
  "heading": "Dropping of persons",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (7), a person must not drop, be dropped or be permitted to drop to the surface or jump from an aircraft flying over the Territory except under and in accordance with the terms of a written permission granted by the Governor under this article.\n(2) A person must not drop, be dropped or be permitted to drop from an aircraft in flight so as to endanger persons or property.\n(3) An aircraft must not be used for the purpose of dropping persons unless—\n(a) there is a certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid in respect of that aircraft under the law of the country in which the aircraft is registered; and\n(b) that certificate or the flight manual includes an express provision that it may be used for that purpose; and\n(c) the aircraft is operated in accordance with a written permission granted by the Governor under this article.\n(4) Every applicant for, and holder of, a parachuting permission must make available to the Governor if requested a parachuting operations manual containing such information and instructions as may be necessary to enable employees and persons engaged in the operation to perform their duties.\n(5) The operations manual must include standard operating procedures as described in article 127.\n(6) The holder of a parachuting permission must make such amendments or additions to the operations manual as the Governor may require.\n(7) Nothing in this article—\n(a) applies to the descent of persons by parachute from an aircraft in an emergency;\n(b) prohibits the lowering of any person in an emergency or for the purpose of saving life;\n(c) prohibits the disembarkation of any person from a helicopter hovering in ground effect in accordance with normal aviation practice; or\n(d) prohibits the lowering of any person from a helicopter to the surface in accordance with article 129.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 131 in force at 1.1.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2870/article/131",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:35:08.016872+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."
}