Compliance with Authority directives

In plain language

If the Authority issues a directive to you as a holder of an aviation safety instrument (such as a drone permit), you must comply with that directive immediately once it takes effect.

Requirement as structured

Subject to section 22(5) of the Air Navigation Act, the Authority may give the holder of an aviation safety instrument a directive to do, or not to do, specified things where it considers this necessary to promote or protect safety or public health or to ensure environmental sustainability, where the holder has failed to comply with conditions of the instrument, where the holder is carrying out its privileges or duties carelessly or incompetently, or where there is reasonable doubt about the airworthiness of the aircraft or the quality or safety of the aeronautical product or service concerned; the holder must comply with the directive as soon as it takes effect.

Original regulatory text

22.—(1) Subject to subsection (5), the Authority may, whether or not any administrative proceedings are instituted under section 17, 18 or 19, give a directive to the holder of any aviation safety instrument, according to the circumstances of the case, to do, or not to do, such things as are specified in the directive or are of a description as specified in the directive if — (a) the Authority considers such action necessary in the interests of promoting or protecting safety or public health or ensuring environmental sustainability; (b) the Authority is satisfied that the holder of the aviation safety instrument has failed to comply with any conditions of the aviation safety instrument; (c) the Authority considers that the privileges or duties for which the aviation safety instrument has been granted are being carried out by the holder in a careless or incompetent manner; or (d) in the case of an aviation safety instrument relating to the use of any aircraft, aeronautical product, or the provision of any service, or impose conditions in respect of any such document, the Authority considers that there is reasonable doubt as to the airworthiness of the aircraft or as to the quality or safety of the aeronautical product or service to which the aviation safety instrument relates, and that holder must comply with that directive as soon as it takes effect.