Article 144 Licensing of air traffic controllers and student air traffic controllersI1

The Governor must grant a licence to any person to act as an air traffic controller or as a student air traffic controller in the Territory upon being satisfied that the applicant—

The Governor must not grant—

The Governor may include in an air traffic controller’s licence any rating and endorsement upon being satisfied that the applicant is qualified as specified in paragraph (1)(b) to act in the capacity to which such rating or endorsement relates and such rating or endorsement is deemed to form part of the licence.

A licence to act as an air traffic controller or a student air traffic controller is not valid unless the holder of the licence has signed it in ink.

Every licence to act as a student air traffic controller is valid only for the purpose of authorising the holder to act as an air traffic controller under the supervision of another person who is present at the time and who is the holder of an air traffic controller’s licence including an on-the-job instructor training rating entitling that person to provide unsupervised the type of air traffic control service which is being provided by the student air traffic controller.

Every holder of an air traffic controller’s licence or a student air traffic controller’s licence must, upon such occasions as the Governor may require, submit to such examinations and tests (including medical examinations) and provide such evidence as to the holder’s knowledge, experience, competence and skill and undergo such courses of training as the Governor may require.

The holder of an air traffic controller’s licence is not entitled to exercise the privileges of a rating contained in the licence at any place or for any sector or with any type of F3ATS surveillance system or service unless the licence includes a valid certificate of competence for that rating which is appropriate to that place or sector and that equipment (if any).

A valid certificate of competence shall not be appropriate to the exercise of the privileges of a rating at any place or for any sector or with any type of surveillance equipment unless the certificate—

A valid certificate of competence issued under paragraph (7) must be signed by a person authorised by the Governor to sign certificates of that kind and is valid for 12 months from the date of the test which it certifies.

If throughout any period of 90 days the holder of a licence has not at any time provided at a particular place or for a particular sector and with the aid of the type of surveillance equipment, if any, specified in a certificate of competence, the type of air traffic control service specified in the rating to which the certificate of competence relates, the certificate ceases to be valid for that place or sector at the end of that period.

Upon a certificate of competence ceasing to be valid for a place or sector the holder of the licence must immediately inform the person who is approved under article 138 of this Order to provide an air traffic control service at that place or for that sector to that effect and must forward the licence to a person approved by the Governor for the purpose, who must endorse the licence accordingly and return it to the holder immediately.

In paragraph (7) “ATS surveillance system” means variously Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast or Primary Surveillance Radar or Secondary Surveillance Radar or any comparable ground based system that enables the identification of aircraft; and “ATS surveillance service” means a service provided directly by means of an ATS surveillance system.