{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-safety-amendment-regulations-2021/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/10",
  "legislation_title": "The Aviation Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-safety-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendments to Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/395 (operation of balloons)",
  "text": "(1) Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/395 of 13 March 2018 laying down detailed rules for the operation of balloons as well as for the flight crew licensing for balloons pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 2 (definitions), at the end insert—\n“(16) ‘medical declaration’ means a medical declaration made in accordance with article 163(3) of the Air Navigation Order 2016 by a pilot holding a balloon pilot licence (BPL), which has not ceased to be valid in accordance with article 163(4) of that Order.”.\n(3) In Annex 3 (Part-BFCL)—\n(a) in Subpart GEN (general requirements), in point BFCL.045(a)(2), after “certificate” insert “or medical declaration, appropriate to the privileges exercised”;\n(b) in Subpart BPL (balloon pilot licence), in point BFCL.115(c), after “certificate” insert “or medical declaration”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2018/395 - this is a reference to the retained version of Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/395, as amended by S.I. 2019/1098 and 2020/1116. The retained version of Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/395 is online at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/395/contents."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/10/regulation/5",
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  "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."
}