Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 14

Radio equipment of aircraft

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 36 of 1999 s. 3

(1) An aircraft shall not fly unless it is so equipped with radio and radio
navigation equipment as to comply with the law of the country in which the
aircraft is registered and to enable communications to be made and the
aircraft to be navigated, in accordance with the provisions of this Order
including, in particular, Schedule 15 hereto.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (1) of this Article, the aircraft shall be
equipped with radio and radio navigation equipment in accordance with Schedule
6 to this Order.

(3) In any particular case the Chief Executive may direct that an aircraft
registered in Hong Kong shall carry such additional or special radio or radio
navigation equipment as he may specify for the purpose of facilitating the
navigation of the aircraft, the carrying out of search and rescue operations
or the survival of the persons carried in the aircraft. (36 of 1999 s. 3)

(4) Subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed the radio and radio
navigation equipment provided in compliance with this Article in an aircraft
registered in Hong Kong shall always be maintained in serviceable condition.

(5) All radio and radio navigation equipment installed in an aircraft
registered in Hong Kong or carried on such an aircraft for use in connection
with the aircraft (whether or not in compliance with this Order or any
regulations made thereunder) shall be of a type approved by the Chief
Executive in relation to the purpose for which it is to be used, and shall be
installed in a manner approved by the Chief Executive. Neither the equipment
nor the manner in which it is installed shall be modified except with the
approval of the Chief Executive. (36 of 1999 s. 3)