Transport Act 2000

3 (1) The existing licence company, acting with the consent of the new licence company and, in relation to the matters affecting them, of any other licence companies, may make a scheme designed to secure that the new licence company carries out licensed activities in respect of all or part of the licensed area.

(2) No scheme takes effect unless it is approved by the Secretary of State after consulting the CAA.

(3) If a scheme is submitted to the Secretary of State for approval he may modify the scheme before approving it.

(4) But no modification may be made unless the following consent—

(a) the new licence company,

(b) the existing licence company, and

(c) in relation to the matters affecting them, any other licence companies.

(5) A scheme comes into force on the appointed day.

(6) At any time after a scheme has come into force, if he thinks it appropriate the Secretary of State may by order provide that the scheme is to be taken for all purposes to have come into force with the modifications specified in the order.

(7) But the Secretary of State may not make an order under sub-paragraph (6) unless the following consent—

(a) the existing licence company,

(b) the new licence company, and

(c) in relation to the provisions of the order which affect them, any other licence companies.

(8) An order under sub-paragraph (6)—

(a) may make, with effect from the coming into force of the scheme to which it relates, any such provision as could have been made by the scheme, and

(b) in connection with giving effect to that provision from that time, may make such supplementary, consequential and transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks appropriate.