Some incompetent surgery was done on 20.11 a decade or so ago, and it’s never been fixed because the ‘new’ simple regulations would be out ‘soon’.
Note 2 is the dead giveaway: The provisions of this paragraph “need not apply”. Need they not? They either apply as a matter of law, or they don’t.
Note 1 is also a manifestation of an attempt to legislate someone’s strongly held personal opinion.
If you want to make sense of those bits of 20.11:
- Ignore Notes 1 and 2.
- Ignore paragraph 5.1.7.
- Read paragraph 5.1.8 as having these opening words: “If life jackets are required to be carried in accordance with paragraph 5.1.1 or paragraph 5.1.4, each occupant of a single engine aircraft must wear a life jacket ….”
