{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-16.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/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Qualifications for registration",
  "text": "(1) The following persons are qualified to hold a legal or beneficial interest by way of ownership in an aircraft registered in a Territory or a share in such an aircraft—\n(a) the Crown in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or in right of the Government of the Territory;\n(b) United Kingdom nationals;\n(c) Commonwealth citizens;\n(d) nationals of any European Economic Area State or of the Swiss Confederation;\n(e) bodies incorporated in any part of the Commonwealth and which have their registered office or principal place of business in any part of the Commonwealth; or\n(f) undertakings formed in accordance with the law of an European Economic Area State or of the Swiss Confederation and which have their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Economic Area or within the Swiss Confederation.\n(2) If an unqualified person residing or having a place of business in the Territory holds a legal or beneficial interest by way of ownership in an aircraft, or a share in an aircraft, the Governor may register the aircraft in the Territory upon being satisfied that the aircraft may otherwise be properly registered.\n(3) If an unqualified person has registered an aircraft under paragraph (2), that aircraft must not be used for the purpose of commercial air transport or aerial work while it is so registered.\n(4) If an aircraft is chartered by demise to a qualified person the Governor may, whether or not an unqualified person is entitled as owner to a legal or beneficial interest in the aircraft, register the aircraft in the Territory in the name of the charterer by demise upon being satisfied that the aircraft may otherwise be properly registered.\n(5) Subject to the provisions of this Part, an aircraft registered under paragraph (4) may remain registered during the continuation of the charter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 16(1) substituted (15.1.2015) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2925), arts. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 16(1)(d) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 16(1)(f) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 16(1)(f) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}