{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/article-75",
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  "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/75",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Non-commercial air transport aircraft – aerodrome operating minima",
  "text": "(1) This article applies to any aircraft that is not operating for the purposes of commercial air transport.\n(2) Except under and in accordance with the terms of an approval to do so, an aircraft to which this article applies must not conduct—\n(a) a Category II operation; or\n(b) an Other than Standard Category II operation; or\n(c) an approach and landing using minima lower than those for a Category II operation;\nunless, under the law of the country in which it is registered, the aircraft is certificated for operations with decision heights below 200 feet, or no decision height, and is equipped for such operations.\n(3) Except under and in accordance with the terms of an approval to do so, granted in accordance with the law of the country in which it is registered, an aircraft to which this article applies must not—\n(a) take off when the relevant runway visual range is less than the specified runway visual range; or\n(b) conduct an approach and landing when the visibility or relevant runway visual range is less than that specified for a Category I operation.\n(4) In the case of an aircraft registered in the Territory, an approval referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) is one issued by the Governor.\n(5) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (2) an aircraft to which this article applies, when making a descent at an aerodrome, must not descend from a height of 1000 feet or more above the aerodrome to a height less than 1000 feet above the aerodrome if the reported visibility or relevant runway visual range at the aerodrome is at the time less than the specified minimum for landing.\n(6) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (2) an aircraft to which this article applies when making a descent to a runway in respect of which there is a notified instrument approach procedure must not—\n(a) continue an approach to landing at such a runway by flying below the relevant specified decision height; or\n(b) descend below the relevant specified minimum descent height;\nunless in either case from such height the specified visual reference for landing is established and is maintained.\n(7) If, according to the information available, an aircraft would, as regards any flight, be required by any of rules 18(1), 19(1) or 20 of the Rules of the Air to be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules at the aerodrome of intended landing, the pilot-in-command of the aircraft must select prior to take-off an alternative aerodrome, unless no aerodrome suitable for that purpose is available.\n(8) A flight to be conducted in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules to an aerodrome when no alternate aerodrome is available must not be commenced unless—\n(a) a designated instrument approach procedure is available for the aerodrome of intended landing; and\n(b) the available current meteorological information indicates that visual meteorological conditions will exist at the aerodrome of intended landing from two hours before to two hours after the estimated time of arrival.\n(9) A flight must not be continued towards the aerodrome of intended landing unless the latest available information indicates that conditions at that aerodrome, or at least one alternate aerodrome, will, at the estimated time of arrival, be at or above the specified aerodrome operating minima.\n(10) In this article “specified” in relation to aerodrome operating minima means the particulars of aerodrome operating minima notified in respect of the aerodrome or if the relevant minima have not been notified such minima as are ascertainable by reference to the notified method for calculating the aerodrome operating minima.\n(11) In this article “Category I operation”, “Category II operation” and “Other than Standard Category II operation” have the same meaning as in article 105(9).\n(12) In this article “designated” in relation to an instrument approach procedure means notified, prescribed or otherwise designated by the relevant competent authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 75 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/75",
    "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."
}