7.—(1) This Article applies to—
(a)any regulated airport;
(b)any airport (other than a regulated airport) which is managed by a district council under Article 17; F1. . .
(c)F1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) The Department may make an order under this Article if, on representations made to it by the airport operator of an airport to which this Article applies, the Department is satisfied that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to secure the safe and efficient operation of the airport or to secure the provision of any services required in relation to the airport.
(3) An order under this Article may provide for the creation in favour of the airport operator of easements over land or of other rights in or in relation to land, including rights to carry out and maintain works on any land and to install and maintain structures and apparatus on, under, over or across any land.
(4) Any such order may contain such provisions as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order, including, in particular, provisions for authorising persons to enter any land for the purpose of carrying out, installing, maintaining or removing any works, structures or apparatus.
(5) Subject to paragraph (6), a person authorised to enter any land by an order under this Article shall not demand to do so as of right unless—
(a)14 days notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier; and
(b)if required to do so, he has produced evidence of his authority.
(6) Nothing in paragraph (5) shall restrict the right of an airport operator to enter any land in a case of an emergency or for the purpose of performing any functions which are required to be performed from time to time in connection with the maintenance or use of any works, structures or apparatus.
(7) The ownership of anything shall not be affected by reason only that it is placed on or under, or affixed to, any land in pursuance of an order under this Article.
(8) Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to an order under this Article.
(9) An order under this Article shall be included among the matters which are required to be registered in the Statutory Charges Register.
(10) Any person who, at any time when an order under this Article is in force in respect of an airport, intentionally and without the consent of the airport operator interferes with—
(a)any works carried out on any land in pursuance of the order; or
(b)anything installed on, under, over or across any land in pursuance of the order,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both.
(11) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person in the exercise of any power of entry conferred by an order under this Article shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
F1Art. 7(1)(c) and preceding word omitted (10.11.2011) by virtue of Airport Charges Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2491), reg. 29(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(2)
8.—(1) This Article applies to any licensed airport.
(2) Where, on representations made to it by the airport operator of an airport to which this Article applies, the Department is satisfied that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to secure the safe and efficient operation of the airport, the Department may by order declare that any area of land specified in the order shall be subject to control by directions given in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
(3) Where an order under this Article is in force in relation to any area of land, the Department may, in pursuance of any general or special authority given by the order, give directions—
(a)for prohibiting the erection within the area, except with the consent of the Department given either generally or subject to conditions, of any buildings or structures or of buildings or structures of such descriptions as may be specified in the directions;
(b)for requiring the total or partial demolition of any building or structure within the area;
(c)for restricting the height of trees on any land within the area, or for requiring any tree on any such land to be cut down or reduced in height;
(d)for extinguishing any private right of way over land within the area;
(e)for restricting the installation of cables, mains, sewers, pipes, wires or other apparatus on, under, over or across any land within the area;
(f)for extinguishing, at the expiration of such period as may be determined by the directions, any subsisting right of installing or maintaining any such apparatus on, under, over or across any land within the area;
(g)for requiring that, before the expiration of such period as may be determined by the directions, any such apparatus shall be removed from any land within the area.
(4) An order under this Article may contain such provisions as appear to the Department to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order, including, in particular—
(a)provisions for appeal by any person aggrieved by a decision of the Department to refuse its consent under paragraph (3)(a) or to grant its consent subject to conditions;
(b)provisions for empowering any person authorised in that behalf by the Department to remove, pull down, cut down, or alter so as to bring into conformity with the requirements of any directions given under the order, any building, structure, tree or apparatus which contravenes those requirements.
(5) Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to an order under this Article.
(6) Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to any direction given under an order made under this Article.
(7) An order under this Article shall be included among the matters which are required to be registered in the Statutory Charges Register.
9.—(1) This Article applies to any licensed airport.
(2) Where, on representations made to it by the airport operator of an airport to which this Article applies, the Department is satisfied, with respect to any building, structure or erection in the vicinity of the airport, that, in order to avoid danger to aircraft flying in that vicinity in darkness or conditions of poor visibility, provision ought to be made (whether by lighting or otherwise) for giving to such aircraft warning of the presence of that building, structure or erection, the Department may by order authorise the airport operator—
(a)to execute, install, maintain, operate, and, as occasion requires, to repair and alter, such works and apparatus as may be necessary for enabling such warning to be given in the manner specified in the order; and
(b)so far as may be necessary for exercising any of the powers conferred by the order to enter and pass over (with or without vehicles) any such land as may be specified in the order.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person authorised to enter any land by an order under this Article shall not demand to do so as of right unless—
(a)14 days notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier; and
(b)if required to do so, he has produced evidence of his authority.
(4) Nothing in paragraph (3) shall restrict the right of an airport operator to enter any land in a case of an emergency or for the purpose of performing any functions which are required to be performed from time to time in connection with the maintenance or use of any works or apparatus.
(5) The ownership of anything shall not be affected by reason only that it is placed on or under, or affixed to, any land in pursuance of an order under this Article.
(6) Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to an order under this Article.
(7) Subject to paragraph (8), any person who, at any time when an order under this Article is in force in respect of an airport, intentionally and without the consent of the airport operator, interferes with any works or things executed, placed on or affixed on, under or over any land in pursuance of the order shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both.
(8) Nothing in paragraph (7) applies to the doing of any work for the purpose of repairing, altering, demolishing or removing a building, structure or erection where—
(a)notice of the doing of that work is given as soon as may be to the airport operator; and
(b)the giving of warning of the presence of the building, structure or erection in the manner provided by any order under this Article in force in relation thereto is not interrupted.
(9) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person in the exercise of any of the powers conferred by an order under this Article shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
10.—(1) This Article applies to—
(a)any regulated airport;
(b)any airport (other than a regulated airport) which is managed by a district council under Article 17; F2. . .
(c)F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2) Where, on representations made to it by the airport operator of an airport to which this Article applies, the Department is satisfied that it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to secure the safe and efficient operation of the airport, the Department may by order stop up or divert any road.
(3) An order under this Article may provide for all or any of the following matters, that is to say—
(a)the provision or improvement of any road so far as the Department thinks such provision or improvement necessary or desirable in consequence of the stopping up or diversion of a road under the order;
(b)for directing that any road to be provided or improved in consequence of the stopping up or diversion of a trunk road under the order shall itself be a trunk road for all or any of the purposes of the statutory provisions relating to trunk roads;
(c)for the retention or removal of any cables, mains, sewers, pipes, wires or other apparatus placed under, in, on, over, along or across any road stopped up or diverted under the order, and for the extinguishment, modification or preservation of any rights as to the use or maintenance of that apparatus;
(d)if any road is to be provided or improved under the order, for authorising or requiring the provision of any such apparatus as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) under, in, on, over, along or across that road, in lieu of any apparatus removed from a road in pursuance of the order, and for conferring rights as to the use or maintenance of apparatus so provided;
(e)for requiring the Department, the airport operator or any other specified authority or person—
(i)to carry out any work provided for by the order; or
(ii)to pay, or to make contributions in respect of, the cost of doing any such work or any increased expenditure to be incurred which is attributable to the doing of any such work.
(4) Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to an order under this Article.
(5) The powers of the Department under this Article shall include power to make an order to stop up or divert any road which is temporarily stopped up or diverted under any other statutory provision, and the provisions of this Article shall not prejudice any power conferred on the Department by any other statutory provision to stop up or divert a road.
(6) In this Article “road” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993F3.
F2Art. 10(1)(c) and preceding word omitted (10.11.2011) by virtue of Airport Charges Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2491), reg. 29(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(3)
11.—(1) This Article applies to any licensed airport.
(2) Where, on representations made to it by the airport operator of an airport to which this Article applies, the Department is satisfied that in the interests of the safety of aircraft using the airport the traffic on a road should be regulated or restricted, the Department may by order—
(a)provide for the regulation, whether by means of signals, barriers or otherwise, of traffic on that road; or
(b)restrict the use of that road by vehicles of such classes or descriptions as may be specified in the order.
(3) An order under this Article may provide that a constable appointed under Article 19 shall have the like powers, privileges and duties in relation to the road specified in the order as he has in relation to the airport for which he was appointed.
(4) Schedule 1 shall have effect with respect to an order under this Article.
(5) Any person who contravenes, or uses a vehicle or causes or permits a vehicle to be used in contravention of, an order made under this Article shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(6) In this Article “road” has the meaning assigned to it by Article 2(2) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981F4.