## [Airlaw : UK legislation/statute affecting aviation](https://aeroplaying.uk/G/!/Airlaw/) ### [Primary sources : a set of information (sources) for Pilots covering the need-to-know topics included in their licence](https://aeroplaying.uk/G/!/Airlaw/Primary) - [UK Civil Aviation Act 1982](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/16/contents) *aaa - [UK Civil Aviation Authority Regulations 1991](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1672/contents) *aaa - [UK Civil Aviation (Investigation of Air Accidents and incidents) Regulations 1996](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2798) *aaa - [UK Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 2002](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2786) *aaa - Rules of the air, see below. (Standard European rules with some UK specific exceptions, all following international (ICAO) agreements.) - [UK Air Navigation Order 2016](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/765/contents) *aaa - [UK Permanent Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) Regulations (various)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/primary+secondary?title=Restriction%20of%20Flying) *aaa \*aaa - and as ammended ### Means of compliance: Additional clarifications applicable to establish the boundaries of the law - [Acceptable Means of Compliance for requirements in the UK Regulation can be met](https://regulatorylibrary.caa.co.uk/923-2012/Content/Note%20from%20the%20Editor_2.htm) - Requirements can be met by other means, regulated persons and organisations may apply for permission to use alternative means to comply with the law by the use of Alternative Means of Compliance [AltMoCs](https://www.caa.co.uk/our-work/publications/documents/content/cap1721/) ### Authoritive source (CAA), for Means of Compliance and Guidance Material The CAA is in the eyes of the law: "to register, refuse to register, cancel or amend the registration of an aircraft or to grant, refuse to grant, validate, refuse to validate, revoke, suspend, vary or refuse to vary a certificate, licence, approval, authorisation or rating, or make an air traffic direction or an airspace policy direction" For the avoidance of doubt only the CAA has this power. - [CAP393: Regulations made under powers in the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and the Air Navigation Order 2016](http://www.caa.co.uk/cap393) - [Easy Access Rules for Standardised European Rules of the Air (SERA)](https://www.easa.europa.eu/en/document-library/easy-access-rules/easy-access-rules-standardised-european-rules-air-sera) - [CAP1535S: The Skyway Code](https://www.caa.co.uk/general-aviation/safety-publications-and-information/the-skyway-code/) - [CAP032: UK Aeronautical Information Publication](https://www.nats.aero/ais) - The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for the form and content of the UK Aeronautical Products and NATS as the UK Aeronautical Information Service Provider is responsible for the preparation and availability. - [UK Standardised European Rules of the Air - Exceptions to the Minimum Height Requirements 2021](https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/ORS4%20No.1496.pdf) - [Aviation and the Law in the United Kingdom](https://flightsafety.org/asw-article/aviation-and-the-law-in-the-united-kingdom/) ### A bit of background to "Rules of the Air" - ["in due course official HMG publications of UK aviation law will be published, with no charge or fee to access, on legislation.gov.uk. Until those are available the CAA has published CAA procured versions"](https://www.caa.co.uk/uk-regulations/aviation-safety/basic-regulation-the-implementing-rules-and-uk-caa-amc-gm-cs/information-on-aviation-law-in-the-uk/) - [UK SERA (UK Reg (EU) No 923/2012 (as amended)) applies to every aircraft operating in UK airspace regardless of type or state of registration](https://www.caa.co.uk/uk-regulations/aviation-safety/basic-regulation-the-implementing-rules-and-uk-caa-amc-gm-cs/sera-standardised-rules-of-the-air/) - [UK Rules of the Air regulations 2015 "necessary changes to domestic legislation as a consequence of European legislation relating to the same or similar subject matters"](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/840/introduction) *aaa ####### [Feedback](https://t.me/nrbray)