Legislation for Consultation

Proposed changes to Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order and the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) (Environmental Standards) Order will normally be available via this website. If you would like to be notified when material is available for review and comment, please register for Email Alerts at the bottom of this page.

Comments received during the formal consultation process will be considered and, where appropriate, changes will be incorporated into the draft amendment to the legislation. Disindentified comments and our responses will be published in a log on this website following the formal consultation period. Commenters should note, though, that ASSI does not have the final say over the form and content of legislation, which is subject to UK legislative procedures.

Additional proposals to amend the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013

In March 2025, we published a major consultation setting out proposals to amend the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order (hereafter referred to as ‘the Order’) across six areas. That consultation closed on 28 May 2025 and will be used to lay a Statutory Instrument of UK secondary legislation in Autumn 2025.

In view of our hope to avoid the need for subsequent amendments once the 2025 Order is enacted, we are now also considering and consulting on additional policy proposals on new areas listed below that have crystalised since we published the first consultation.

Please note that this consultation will take place for 60 days rather than the usual 90 days and closes on Monday 4 August.

Proposed amendment areas

In addition to the amendment areas proposed in the first consultation, we are looking at changes in the following areas:

1. Psychoactive substances: in addition to the proposals in the first consultation to amend articles 138 and 178, we also propose changes to article 148 concerning Exercise of privileges of licences and provisional inability.
2. Clarifying the legal status of Overseas Territories Aviation Requirements (OTARs): proposed amendments in Part 1 of the Order (articles 3, 4 and 6) to clarify the status of these requirements.
3. Amendments to Rules of the Air in Schedule 4: we propose amendments to Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and for night operations.

Find out more by downloading the consultation document on the additional proposals to amend the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 2013.

Consultation on these amendments closes on 4 August 2025.  Comments should be sent by email to assi.consultation@airsafety.aero or by post to our office address.