Civil Aviation Act 1971

Section 31(3).

SCHEDULE 7 Byelaws

1 The byelaws shall be made under the common seal of the Authority.

2 At least one month before application for confirmation of the byelaws is made, notice of the intention to apply for confirmation shall be given by the Authority in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the aerodrome to which the byelaws relate is situated or, if the byelaws relate to more than one aerodrome, circulating respectively in the several localities in which those aerodromes are situated; and the notice shall specify a period of not less than one month during which representations on the byelaws may be made to the Secretary of State.

3 For at least one month before application for confirmation is made a copy of the byelaws shall be deposited at the offices of the Authority at each aerodrome to which the byelaws relate and shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection free of charge.

4 The Authority shall, on application made by any person before the byelaws are confirmed, furnish to him a copy of the byelaws or of any part of them on payment of such sum, not exceeding five new pence for every hundred words contained in the copy, as the Authority may determine.

5 The Secretary of State may confirm with or without modifications, or refuse to confirm, any byelaw submitted to him for confirmation, and may fix the date on which a byelaw confirmed by him is to come into operation ; and if no date is so fixed the byelaw shall come into operation at the expiration of one month beginning with the day on which it is confirmed.

6 A copy of the byelaws, when confirmed, shall be printed and deposited at the offices of the Authority at each aerodrome to which the byelaws relate and shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection free of charge ; and a copy of the byelaws shall on application be furnished to any person on payment of such sum, not exceeding ten new pence for every copy, as the Authority may determine.

7 The production of a printed copy of a byelaw purporting to be made by the Authority upon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by a person authorised in that behalf by the Authority stating—

(a) that the byelaw was made by the Authority ;

(b) that the copy is a true copy of the byelaw ;

(c) that on a specified date the byelaw was confirmed by the Secretary of State ; and

(d) the date, if any, fixed by the Secretary of State for the coming into operation of the byelaw,

shall be evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of the facts stated in the certificate, without proof of the handwriting or authorisation of the person by whom it purports to be signed.