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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-canadian-navigation-services-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2540",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Aviation (Canadian Navigation Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-canadian-navigation-services-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Canadian Navigation Services) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/688) (“the Principal Regulations”) as follows:\n1 In consequence of the transfer of the provision of air navigation services in Canada from the Canadian Minister of Transport to NAV CANADA, a corporation established in Canada for that purpose, the following changes are made—\n(a) in regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations a definition of the Corporation is introduced;\n(b) in regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations a definition of international flight is introduced;\n(c) in regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations the definition of specified airspace is extended to include all airspace for which the Government of Canada has undertaken in pursuit of international arrangements the provision of air navigation services other than airspace within the Gander Oceanic Flight Information Region;\n(d) in regulation 4(1) of the Principal Regulations, the operator of an aircraft, wherever registered, shall pay to the CAA charges in respect of air navigation services which are made available by the Corporation or a person acting under the authority of the Canadian Minister of National Defence;\n(e) in regulation 15 of the Principal Regulations, paragraph (2) is introduced whereby the CAA shall remit to the Corporation in respect of air navigation services made available by the Corporation or a person acting under the authority of the Canadian Minister of National Defence such sums as it may receive under the Regulations.\n2 Regulation 2(2) of the Principal Regulations is amended to provide that only the expression “maximum total weight authorised” shall have the same meaning as in the Air Navigation (No. 2) Order 1995.\n3 Regulation 4(1) of the Principal Regulations is amended so that the charge in sub-paragraph (a) for use of air navigation services within the Gander Oceanic Flight Information Region, the charge in sub-paragraph (b) for use of radio frequencies to obtain air navigation services by way of telecommunication services and the charge in sub-paragraph (c) for use of air navigation services in respect of each flight from or to an airport in Canada situated north of N6000 to or from an airport in Greenland no longer apply in respect of a flight by an aircraft in the service of a State which is not for commercial purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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."
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