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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/section-18",
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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": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Part 3: interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“ANO 2016” means the Air Navigation Order 2016;\n“subordinate legislation” means any instrument made or to be made—\n(a)under an Act of Parliament, or\n(b)on or after IP completion day under any assimilated direct legislation;\n“unmanned aircraft” means any aircraft operating or designed to operate autonomously or to be piloted remotely without a pilot on board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 99"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/section/18",
    "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."
}