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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Aeroplane Noise Regulations 1999 No. 1452
12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) and to regulation 13, this regulation applies to any civil subsonic jet aeroplane with a maximum take-off mass of 34,000 kilograms or more or with a certified maximum internal accommodation for the aeroplane type in question of more than 19 passenger seats, excluding any seats for crew only, and in either case fitted with engines having a by-pass ratio of less than 2.
(2) Subject to regulations 20 and 22 to 25 an aeroplane to which this regulation applies shall not be operated at any airport in the United Kingdom unless there is in force in respect of that aeroplane a noise certificate granted, in the case of an aeroplane registered in the United Kingdom by the CAA, in the case of an aeroplane registered in Gibraltar by the competent authority for Gibraltar and in the case of an aeroplane registered elsewhere by the competent authority of the State of registry, certifying that the aeroplane meets either—
(a)the standards specified in Part II, Chapter 3, Volume 1 of Annex 16/1988, or
(b)the standards specified in Part II, Chapter 2, Volume 1 of Annex 16/1988, provided that the aeroplane was first issued an individual certificate of airworthiness less than 25 years before 1 April 1995.
(3) This regulation shall not apply—
(a)to any aeroplane on the register of a member State or EEA State other than the United Kingdom in respect of which there is in force an exemption granted by that State pursuant to articles 4 to 7 of the 1992 Directive,
(b)to any aeroplane on a register kept for Gibraltar in respect of which there is in force an exemption granted by Gibraltar pursuant to articles 4 to 7 of the 1992 Directive,
(c)before 1st April 2002, to any aeroplane the subject of the 1989 Directive,
(d)on or after 1 April 2002, to any aeroplane to which regulation 14 applies.
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