{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Arrangements for giving effect to the Convention on International Civil Aviation",
  "text": "(1) The Governor must within the Territory issue such instructions or publish such requirements or make such arrangements as are necessary, requisite or expedient for carrying out the Convention on International Civil Aviation and implementing any Annex and any amendment to the Convention, or any such Annex made in accordance with the Convention, or generally for regulating and securing the safety of international air navigation in accordance with section 8(1) of the Act.\n(2) Under the provisions of paragraph (1) the Governor must in particular—\n(a) provide or secure the provision of a meteorological service to meet the needs of international air navigation, with due regard to regional air navigation agreements and must designate the appropriate authority to provide or arrange for the provision of such meteorological service;\n(b) provide or secure the provision in the Territory of aeronautical charts that comply with the specified requirements;\n(c) arrange for the establishment and provision of search and rescue services within the Territory, and in such portions of the high seas that are the responsibility of the Territory under regional air navigation agreements; ...\n(d) provide or secure the provision of an aeronautical information service ; and\n(e) review the classification of airspace in the Territory where appropriate in light of any relevant regional air navigation plan published by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and make such alterations to that classification as the Governor, after consulting with such persons as the Governor thinks fit, considers appropriate to ensure compliance with any such plan.\n(3) The Governor must arrange for the details of the services and arrangements provided in accordance with paragraph (2) to be included in an Aeronautical Information Publication relating to the Territory.\n(4) Nothing in paragraph (2) requires the Governor to provide any services in relation to a military aerodrome if those services are provided by, or under the direction of, any military authority at that aerodrome.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 7(2)(c) omitted (22.7.2021) by virtue of The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 7(2)(e) and word inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 7(4) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}