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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/operation-of-air-services-regulations-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Operation of Air Services ... Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/operation-of-air-services-regulations-2009",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“CAA Member” means a person appointed under section 2 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 to be a member of the CAA;\n“electronic communication” means a communication transmitted (whether from one person to another, from one device to another or from a person to a device or vice versa) by means of an electronic communications network (within the meaning set out in section 32(1) of the Communications Act 2003);\n“equivalent safety decision” means a decision of the CAA as to whether the condition in Article 13(3)(a) of the EC Regulation is satisfied;\n“hearing” means a hearing at which oral evidence or argument may be heard and “to hear” is construed accordingly;\n“lease approval” means an approval—\n(a)under regulation 17; or\n(b)under ARO.OPS.110 of Annex II of Commission Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 of 5th October 2012 laying down technical requirements and administrative procedures related to air operations pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.\n(2) Any period of time specified in this Schedule by reference to days—\n(a) where such period is expressed to begin after a particular date, is to begin on the first day after that date, and is inclusive of the last day unless that day falls on a day which is not a business day, in which case the period runs to the next business day; and\n(b) where such period is expressed to run to or expire before a particular date or event, the period is to be calculated to expire on the last business day before the particular date or the date of that event.\n(3) A business day is a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 3, 4 inserted (6.4.2013) by The Operation of Air Services in the Community (Pricing etc.) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/486), regs. 1, 37(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(1) substituted (9.1.2019) by The Operation of Air Services (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1392), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 17"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:19:08.762527+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."
}