{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2020/9780348209761",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Exempt commercial air transport operators",
  "text": "(1) A commercial air transport operator is not an aircraft operator for the purposes of this Order in relation to a scheme year, where in respect of that year it operates—\n(a) less than 243 full-scope flights per period for 3 consecutive 4-month periods; or\n(b) full-scope flights with total annual emissions of less than 10,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.\n(2) In this article, “4-month period” means any of the following periods—\n(a) January to April;\n(b) May to August;\n(c) September to December.\n(3) For the purposes of this article, a full-scope flight is taken to have occurred in the 4-month period that included its local time of departure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780348209761/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:49:27.101557+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."
}