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2001 No. 1607
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 2001

	Made	18th April 2001
	Coming into Force	11th May 2001

Whereas the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions deems it necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in the vicinity of certain nuclear installations specified in the Schedule hereto:

     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations [a]2001 and shall come into force on 11th May 2001.

     2. The Regulations specified in the First Schedule hereto are hereby revoked.

     3. - (1) This regulation applies to each of the nuclear installations specified in Column 1 of the Second Schedule hereto each of which for the purpose of this regulation shall be taken to comprise an area bounded by a circle of the radius specified in Column 2 of the said Schedule opposite its name centred on the position so specified in Column 3 of the said Schedule.

    (2) Subject to paragraph (3), an aircraft shall not fly over a nuclear installation to which this regulation applies below such height above mean sea level as is specified in Column 4 of the said Schedule opposite its name.

    (3) Nothing in this regulation shall prohibit:

(a) in relation to the nuclear installations at Aldermaston, Burghfield, Capenhurst, Chapelcross, Sellafield and Springfields, flight for the purpose of landing at or taking off from the helicopter landing area at the installation with the permission of the person in charge of the installation and in accordance with any conditions to which that permission is subject;

(b) in relation to the nuclear installation at Devonport:

(c) in relation to the nuclear installation at Rosyth, flight within the route notified as the Kelty Lane for the purpose of making an approach to land at, or a departure from, Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Airport; or

(d) in relation to the nuclear installation at Springfields:

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Ian McBrayne
Head of Civil Aviation Division, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

18th April 2001

THE FIRST SCHEDULERegulation 2

REVOCATIONS

Regulations Revoked	References
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 1988	S.I. 1988/1138
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) (Amendment) Regulations 1992	S.I. 1992/1351
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1992	S.I. 1992/2085

THE SECOND SCHEDULERegulation 3

Column (1)	Column (2)	Column (3)	Column (4)
Name of Nuclear Installation	Radius in Nautical Miles	Position	Height in Feet
Aldermaston	1½	512203N 0010847W	2,400
Burghfield	1	512424N 0010125W	2,400
Capenhurst	2	531550N 0025708W	2,200
Chapelcross Cross	2	550059N 0031334W	2,400
Coulport/Faslane	2	560331N 0045159W	2,200
Devonport	½	502326N 0041119W	2,000
Dounreay	2	583435N 0034434W	2,100
Harwell	2	513430N 0011905W	2,500
Rosyth	½	560121N 0032709W	2,000
Sellafield	2	542505N 0032944W	2,200
Springfields	2	534634N 0024815W	2,100
Winfrith	1	504052N 0021535W	1,000

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations replace the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Nuclear Installations) Regulations 1988 as amended. In addition to some minor drafting amendments, the restricted area in respect of Winfrith is reduced to a radius of 1 nautical mile and a height of 1,000 feet above mean sea level and the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude are given by reference to the World Geodetic Survey 1984.

Notes:

[1] S.I. 2000/1562.back

[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 1, regulation 1, after "(Nuclear Installations) Regulations": delete "2000", substitute "2001". back

ISBN 0 11 029410 6

Prepared 4 May 2001

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