{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-143",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-143.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/143",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "143",
  "heading": "Prohibition of unlicensed air traffic controllers and student air traffic controllers",
  "text": "(1) A person must not act as an air traffic controller or offer, whether by use of a radio call sign or in any other way, to act as a person who may so act unless such person is the holder of, and complies with the privileges and conditions of—\n(a) a valid student air traffic controller’s licence granted under this Order and under supervision in accordance with article 144(5);\n(b) an appropriate valid air traffic controller’s licence granted under this Order; or\n(c) a valid air traffic controller’s licence so granted which is not appropriate but under supervision as though the person was the holder of a student air traffic controller’s licence.\n(2) Nothing in this article prohibits the holder of a valid air traffic controller’s licence from providing at any place, or for any sector for which the licence includes a valid certificate of competence, information to aircraft in flight in the interests of safety.\n(3) A licence is not required by any person who acts in the course of his or her duty as a member of any of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces or as a member of a visiting force or when providing an air traffic control service at a military aerodrome.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 143(3) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 16(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 143 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/143",
    "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."
}