Attribution of an aeroplane operator to the United Kingdom  8. —(1) The United Kingdom is the administering State for an aeroplane operator where—  (2) An aeroplane operator with international flights attributed to it and which has the United  Kingdom as its administering State must notify the Regulator of that fact.  (3) The Secretary of State, with the assistance of the Regulator, must ensure the correct  attribution of an aeroplane operator to the United Kingdom according to the approach in paragraph  (1).  (4) A Regulator must, by 30th October in each scheme year, provide the Secretary of State with  a list of aeroplane operators for which it is the Regulator.  (5) The Secretary of State must submit to ICAO in accordance with the timeline set out in  Schedule 1 a list of aeroplane operators which are attributed to the United Kingdom containing the  required information as described in Schedule 5, Table 3 and the Secretary of State may submit  updates to this list to ICAO on a more frequent basis.  9. —(1) An aeroplane operator must identify international flights that are attributed to it in  accordance with paragraph (3).  (2) Two or more consecutive flights operated under the same flight number are considered as  separate flights for the purposes of this Order.  (3) An international flight is attributable to an aeroplane operator as follows—  (4) If requested by the Regulator, aeroplane owners identified under paragraph (3)(c) must  provide all information necessary to identify the actual aeroplane operator of a flight.  (5) The aeroplane operator may, by contract, delegate the administrative requirements of this  Order to a third party, as long as the delegation is not to the same entity as the verification body.  Liability for compliance must not be delegated.  ( a ) ICAO Designators and Notifying States are contained in ICAO Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical  Authorities and Services (Doc 8585) which is available from the ICAO website at www.icao.int. For a hard copy contact the  ICAO E-Commerce and Publications Sales Unit at International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), 999 Robert-Bourassa  Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec H3C 5H7, Canada (telephone +1 514-954-8219 and e-mail sales@icao.int).  ( b ) The reference to Item 7 is based on the ICAO model flight plan form contained in Appendix 2 of ICAO Procedures for Air  Navigation Services - Air Traffic Management (Doc 4444) which is available from the ICAO website at www.icao.int. For  a hard copy contact the ICAO E-Commerce and Publications Sales Unit at International Civil Aviation Organisation  (ICAO), 999 Robert-Bourassa Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec H3C 5H7, Canada (telephone +1 514-954-8219 and e-mail  sales@icao.int).  9 (c) when the aeroplane operator of a flight has not been identified under sub-paragraphs (a)  or (b), that flight must be attributed to the aeroplane owner who must then be considered  to be the aeroplane operator of that flight.  (b) when Item 7 (aircraft identification) of the flight plan contains the nationality or common  mark, and registration mark of an aeroplane that is explicitly listed in a valid AOC, or  equivalent, that flight must be attributed to the aeroplane operator that holds the air  operator certificate, and  (a) when Item 7 (aircraft identification)( b ) of the flight plan contains the ICAO Designator,  that flight must be attributed to the aeroplane operator that has been assigned this  Designator,  (a) the aeroplane operator has an ICAO Designator which identifies the United Kingdom as  the Notifying State, as listed in the ICAO document entitled ICAO Designators for  Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services( a ),  (b) without an ICAO Designator, the aeroplane operator has a valid AOC, or equivalent, or  (c) without an ICAO Designator or AOC, the aeroplane operator has its registered office in  the United Kingdom or, where the aeroplane operator is a natural person, is resident in the  United Kingdom.  Attribution of international flights to an aeroplane operator 