13.—(1) “Airline ticket agent” means, subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), a person appointed by an aircraft operator as its agent to make available flight accommodation on a flight operated by that aircraft operator.
(2) An airline ticket agent must not make available flight accommodation except to a person who the airline ticket agent has reasonable grounds for believing is the consumer of that flight accommodation.
(3) An airline ticket agent must act in accordance with a written agency agreement under which the airline ticket agent is entitled to supply a confirmed ticket as required by paragraph (4).
(4) An airline ticket agent must, immediately upon receipt of any payment for the flight accommodation supply a confirmed ticket by the specified method.
(5) When supplying a confirmed ticket as required by paragraph (4), the airline ticket agent must at the same time and by the same method, notify the person to whom the ticket is supplied that they are an airline ticket agent for that aircraft operator.
(6) The CAA may require at any time an airline ticket agent or any person purporting to be an airline ticket agent to provide the CAA with a copy of the written agency agreement required under paragraph (3) by serving a notice on that airline ticket agent or on that person purporting to be an airline ticket agent.
(7) Any notice served by the CAA under paragraph (6) must specify a reasonable period during which the person receiving the notice must provide the CAA with a copy of the written agency agreement.
(8) An airline ticket agent must provide the CAA with a copy of the written agency agreement required under paragraph (3) within the period specified by the CAA in the notice served under paragraph (6).