Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1679

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

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1991 No. 1679

CIVIL AVIATION

The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Whereas the Secretary of State, for a reason affecting the public interest, deems it necessary in the public interest to restrict flying in airspace in the vicinity of certain high security prisons specified in the Schedule to the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) Regulations 1989^[1], as amended by this Instrument:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by article 74 of the Air Navigation Order 1989^[2] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) (Amendment) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 19th September 1991.

    2.    For the Schedule to the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) Regulations 1989 there shall be substituted the following:
SCHEDULE

(1) Name of High Security Prison	(2) Radius in Nautical Miles	(3) Position	(4) Height in Feet
Albany	2	N5042.63 W00118.35	2,300
Parkhurst	2	N5042.63W00118.35	2,300
Long Lartin	2	N5206.43W00151.23	2,200
Gartree	2	N5229.75W00057.60	2,400
Whitemoor	2	N5234.48E00004.86	2,000
Full Sutton	2	N5358.60W00052.30	2,000
Frankland	2	N5448.32W00132.93	2,200
Shotts	2	N5549.83W00349.50	2,800

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

E. C. Neve

An Assistant Secretary in the Department of Transport

22nd July 1991

These Regulations amend the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (High Security Prisons) Regulations 1989 by imposing restrictions on helicopters flying in specified airspace around the high security prison at Whitemoor.

[1] S.I. 1989/2118. back

[2] S.I. 1989/2004, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations. back