The Civil Aviation (Airport Charges) (Sale of Detained Aircraft) Regulations 1971

Steps to be taken to bring proposed application to court to notice of interested persons and afford them an opportunity of becoming a party to the proceedings

3.  An authority proposing to apply to the court for leave to sell an aircraft under section 14 of the Act shall take such of the following steps for bringing the proposed application to the notice of persons whose interests may be affected by the determination of the court thereon and for affording to any such person an opportunity of becoming a party to the proceedings on the application as are applicable to the aircraft:

(1) At least 21 days before applying to the court, the authority shall publish:

(i) in the London Gazette and also, if the aircraft is detained in Scotland, in the Edinburgh Gazette; and

(ii) in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the aircraft is detained

such a notice as is prescribed by Regulation 4 of these Regulations, and shall also, unless in that case it is impracticable to do so, serve such a notice, in the manner so prescribed, on each of the following persons:

(a) the person in whose name the aircraft is registered;

(b) the person, if any, who appears to the authority to be the owner of the aircraft;

(c) any person who appears to the authority to be a charterer of the aircraft whether or not by demise;

(d) any person who appears to the authority to be the operator of the aircraft;

(e) H P Information Ltd being a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1948;

(f) any person who is registered as a mortgagee of the aircraft under an Order in Council made under section 16 of the Act or who appears to the authority to be a mortgagee of the aircraft under the law of any country other than the United Kingdom;

(g) any other person who appears to the authority to have a proprietary interest in the aircraft.

(2) If any person who has been served with a notice in accordance with paragraph (1) of this Regulation informs the authority in writing within 14 days of the service of the notice of his desire to become a party to the proceedings the authority shall make that person a defendant to the application.