The Civil Aviation Authority Regulations 1991

[F1 Hearings in connection with licences U.K.

31C.— (1) Where a matter or question referred to in regulation 31A(1) has been referred the Authority shall, before making a determination:

(a) consider any representations which may have been served on it by the licence holder or any other person within the time permitted by regulation 31B(2);

(b) consider any written submissions served pursuant to regulation 31D(3); and

(c) conduct a hearing in accordance with regulation 31D and consider any representations made and evidence submitted at such a hearing.

(2) The following persons shall have a right to be heard at the hearing held pursuant to paragraph (1)(c):

(a) the licence holder; and

(b) such persons (being persons who wish to be heard and who have served representations within the time permitted by regulation 31B(2)) as appear to the Authority to be users of services provided by the licence holder or to be representative of such persons.

(3) Notwithstanding that a person does not have the right to be heard, the Authority may, if it thinks fit, hear him.

(4) No hearing shall be held pursuant to this regulation unless the Authority has served on the licence holder and any other person whom it proposes to hear in connection with the case not less than 14 days' notice of the date, time and place of the hearing, and the notice shall clearly identify the reference to which it relates: a similar notice shall be published not less than 7 days before the date of the hearing, and shall be exhibited in a public place in the Authority’s principal office during the 7 days immediately preceding the date of the hearing.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 3A inserted (31.7.2001) by The Civil Aviation Authority (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2448), regs. 1, 2(10)