{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "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/9/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A constable may exercise the power conferred by this paragraph in relation to a person (P) if the constable—\n(a) has reasonable grounds for believing that—\n(i) a flight by an unmanned aircraft is taking place or has taken place, and\n(ii) P is or was the remote pilot of the unmanned aircraft for the flight, and\n(b) has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a relevant competency requirement is or was applicable as respects P and the unmanned aircraft and the flight.\n(2) The constable may require P to provide such evidence as the constable considers reasonable of P's compliance, as respects the unmanned aircraft and the flight, with a relevant competency requirement.\n(3) In this paragraph “relevant competency requirement” means a requirement imposed by, or referred to in —\n(a) article 265E(2)(b)(ii) of the ANO 2016 (tethered small unmanned aircraft of 250g or more: competency);\n(b) any of the following provisions of the Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284)—\n(i) regulation 3(5)(b) (open category: having the appropriate competency in the intended sub-category of flight);\n(ii) regulation 3(5)(c) (open category: carrying proof of competency);\n(iii) regulation 3(7)(b) (specific category: having the appropriate competency);\n(iv) regulation 3(7)(c) (specific category: carrying proof of competency);\n(v) regulation 3(8) (specific category: having the appropriate competency specified in the authorisation relating to the flight).\n(4) P is guilty of an offence if—\n(a) P fails to comply with a requirement imposed by a constable under this paragraph to provide evidence of P's compliance, as respects an unmanned aircraft and a flight, with a relevant competency requirement,\n(b) P is or was the remote pilot of the unmanned aircraft for the flight, and\n(c) the relevant competency requirement is or was applicable as respects P and the unmanned aircraft and the flight.\n(5) A person who is guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(6) Paragraph 10 includes a defence to the offence under this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 1(3) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Unmanned Aircraft (Offences and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1284), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 in force at 29.4.2021 for specified purposes and 29.6.2021 for all other purposes, see s. 21(1)(a)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/schedule/9/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}