The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

11.  Part II of Schedule 2 shall be amended as follows–

(a) in paragraph 1, after the word “determination”, there shall be inserted the words “or decision”;

(b) for paragraph 2, there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“2.   The appellant shall serve the notice of appeal on–

(a) the Secretary of State, and

(b) the CAA, and

(c) where it is not the appellant, the managing body of the airport concerned, and

(d) in the case of an appeal against a determination of the CAA made pursuant to regulation 9(1), the persons named in the notice published by the CAA pursuant to paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations as the persons selected to exercise the right to self-handle in relation to the airside services to which the determination relates, and

(e) in the case of an appeal against a decision of the CAA taken pursuant to regulation 12(7)(b), the persons named in the notice published by the CAA pursuant to regulation 12(15) as the persons selected to supply groundhandling services.”;

(c) in paragraph 3, for the words “the determination concerned” to “notice of the decision” inclusive, there shall be substituted the words “the determination or decision concerned”;

(d) for paragraph 4 there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“4.— (1) Where a person receives a notice of appeal pursuant to paragraph 2(b), 2(c), 2(d) or 2(e) above, that person shall, within 14 days after receiving such notice–

(a) serve on the Secretary of State any submission which that person may wish to make in connection with the appeal, and

(b) serve on each of the other parties to the appeal a copy of that submission.

(2) Within 14 days after receiving a copy of the submission referred to in paragraph 4(1) above, each of the other parties to the appeal–

(a) shall serve on the Secretary of State any reply he may wish to make to any such submission, and

(b) shall serve on all other parties to the appeal a copy of any such reply.”;

(e) paragraph 5 shall be omitted;

(f) in paragraph 6–

(i) for the words “the appellant or any person described in paragraph 2 above” there shall be substituted the words “any of the parties to the appeal”, and

(ii) for the words “the appellant or, as the case may be, any such person” there shall be substituted the words “the other parties to the appeal”;

(g) in paragraph 9, for the words “the appellant, the CAA and, where it is not the appellant, the managing body of the airport concerned” there shall be substituted the words “each of the parties to the appeal”;

(h) after paragraph 11, there shall be added the following paragraph–

“12.   In this Part of this Schedule “parties to the appeal” means–

(a) the appellant, and

(b) the persons (other than the Secretary of State) on whom a notice of appeal is served in accordance with paragraph 2 above.”.