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S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2025 No. 1225
CIVIL AVIATION
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Newport)
Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 20th November 2025
Coming into force - - 1st December 2025
The Secretary of State has decided that it is in the public interest to restrict the flying of unmanned
aircraft in the area specified in regulation 3(1) by reason of the intended visit there by a number of
VIPs.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
article 239 of the Air Navigation Order 2016(a).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Newport)
Regulations 2025 and they come into force on 1st December 2025.
Interpretation
2. In regulation 3(1) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time(b).
Restricted airspace
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), beginning with 0700 hours and ending with 2000 hours on 1st
December 2025 no unmanned aircraft is to fly below 1,400 feet above mean sea level within the
area bounded by a circle having a radius of 1 nautical mile which is centred at 513609N
0025544W.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any unmanned aircraft flying in accordance with a
permission issued by the Gwent Police.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Karen L Michaels
Grade 7
20th November 2025 Department for Transport
(a) S.I. 2016/765, amended by S.I. 2024/990; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
(b) Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose restrictions on the flying of unmanned aircraft in the vicinity of the
International Convention Centre, Newport on 1st December 2025 due to a VIP visit which is due
to take place there.
In view of the high profile of the event and at the request of the Gwent Police, the Civil Aviation
Authority and the Department for Transport agree that the flying of unmanned aircraft should be
restricted in the vicinity of the event for reasons of public safety and security.
The times mentioned in regulation 3(1) are Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) which is the same
as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
In relation to the permission mentioned in regulation 3(2), the Gwent Police may be contacted as
notified.
Full details of this Statutory Instrument will be promulgated by Briefing Sheet and Notice to
Aviation (NOTAM).
The point of contact in the Civil Aviation Authority is Mr David Ridley, Airspace Regulator,
Safety and Airspace Regulation Group, on telephone number 03301 382471.
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