{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-2A/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020/schedule-2A/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1265",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-order-2020",
  "path": "schedule/2A/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Excluded activities",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order, an activity is excluded if performed for the exclusive purpose of—\n(a) the transport, on official mission, of—\n(i) a reigning monarch and their immediate family, or head of state, of a country other than the United Kingdom;\n(ii) a minister of a national government of a country other than the United Kingdom;\n(b) military activities;\n(c) search and rescue;\n(d) firefighting;\n(e) providing humanitarian aid or assistance;\n(f) carrying out a government function not otherwise falling within the activities listed above.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“humanitarian aid or assistance” means activities performed for humanitarian purposes which transport relief personnel and relief supplies such as food, clothing, shelter, medical and other items during or after an emergency or disaster, or are used to evacuate persons from a place where their life or health is threatened by such emergency or disaster to a safe haven;\n“immediate family” means, in relation to a person, their spouse or their partner where equivalent to a spouse, their children and parents;\n“search and rescue” includes the performance of distress monitoring, communication, coordination and search and rescue functions, initial medical assistance or medical evacuation, through the use of public and private resources, including cooperating aircraft, ships and other craft and installations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (1.7.2026) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/392), art. 1(1), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1265/schedule/2A/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:06.111058+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."
}