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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-air-regulations-1990/schedule/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-air-regulations-1990/schedule/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2241",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Air Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-air-regulations-1990",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Choice of VFR or IFR",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of rule 21 of these Rules an aircraft shall always be flown in accordance with the Visual Flight Rules or the Instrument Flight Rules:\nProvided that in the United Kingdom an aircraft flying at night:\n(a) outside a control zone shall be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules; or\n(b) in a control zone shall be flown in accordance with the Instrument Flight Rules or the provisions of the proviso to rule 23(b) of these Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2241/schedule/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:57:54.318101+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."
}