{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-navigation-overseas-territories-order-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-33.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": "schedule/4/paragraph/33",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Minimum height",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), an aircraft must not fly at a height of less than 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a distance of 5 nautical miles of the aircraft or, when over high terrain or in mountainous areas, at a height of less than 2000 feet, unless—\n(a) it is necessary for the aircraft to do so in order to take off or land;\n(b) the aircraft flies on a route notified for the purposes of this rule;\n(c) the aircraft has been otherwise authorised by the competent authority in relation to the area over which the aircraft is flying; or\n(d) the aircraft flies at an altitude not exceeding 3,000 feet above mean sea level and remains clear of cloud and with the surface in sight and in a flight visibility of at least 800 metres.\n(2) The aircraft must comply with rule 5.\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a helicopter that is air-taxiing or conducting manoeuvres in accordance with rule 6(i).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 rule 33(1) inserted (22.7.2021) by The Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/755), arts. 1(1), 23(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 33 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/schedule/4/paragraph/33",
    "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."
}