The Stansted Airport Aircraft Movement Limit Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/874
• Sections: 5

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the Stansted Airport Aircraft Movement Limit Order 1987 and shall come into force on 1st June 1987.

Section 2

At Stansted Airport there shall, subject to article 3, be a limit on the number of occasions on which aircraft may take-off or land during any period of one year, taken from 1st March in each year, of 78,000.

Section 3

Article 2 shall not apply to aircraft taking-off or landing at the airport in any of the following circumstances or cases, namely:—

(a) the aircraft is not carrying, for hire or reward, any passengers;

(b) the aircraft is engaged on non-scheduled air transport services where the passenger seating capacity of the aircraft used does not exceed ten;

(c) the aircraft is required to land at the airport because of an emergency or any other circumstances beyond the control of the operator and commander of the aircraft;

(d) the aircraft is engaged on the Queen’s flight, or on a flight operated primarily for the purposes of the transport of Government Ministers or visiting Heads of State or dignitaries from abroad.

Section 4

For the purposes of article 3(a) an aircraft is not to be taken as carrying, for hire or reward, any passengers by reason only that:

(a) it is carrying employees of the operator of the aircraft or of an associated company of the operator; or

(b) it is carrying attendants who are travelling with its cargo or are on a return flight having attended cargo on their previous flight;and for the purposes of article 3(b) an aircraft is engaged on non-scheduled air transport services if the flight on which it is engaged is not part of a series of journeys between the same two places amounting to a systematic service.

Section 5

For the purposes of article 4, a company shall be treated as an associated company of the operator of the aircraft if either that company or the operator of the aircraft is a body corporate of which the other is a subsidiary or if both of them are subsidiaries of one and the same body corporate.