{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-8/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-8/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/12",
  "legislation_title": "Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule “relevant unmanned aircraft offence” means—\n(a) an offence under this Act;\n(b) any of these offences under the ANO 2016—\n(i) an offence under article 94A(1) or 239(4) of the ANO 2016;\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) a relevant offence under article 265E(7) of the ANO 2016;\n(iv) an offence under the law of Scotland which arises under any other provision of the ANO 2016 and relates to unmanned aircraft, except an offence which is triable only summarily;\n(ba) an offence under regulation 2(2) or 3(2) of the Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025;\n(bb) a relevant offence under regulation 3(3) of the Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025;\n(c) an offence under any of these provisions—\n(i) section 40C(2) or (3) of the Prison Act 1952;\n(ii) section 34B(2) or (3) of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953;\n(iii) section 41 or 41ZA of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989;\n(d) a Scottish common law prison offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 5(b)(i) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5(b)(ii) omitted (1.1.2026) by virtue of The Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5(ba)(bb) inserted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 in force at 29.4.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 21(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 in force at 29.6.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/748, reg. 2(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/schedule/8/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:52.834529+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."
}