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SCHEDULES

Section 63(5).

SCHEDULE 3E+W+S Airport Byelaws made by Persons other than the Secretary of State

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

1E+W+SReferences in this Schedule to the airport operator in relation to any byelaws are references to the person making those byelaws as mentioned in section 63(5).

2E+W+SWhere the airport operator is a body corporate, the byelaws shall be made under its common seal.

3E+W+SAt least one month before application for confirmation of the byelaws is made to the Secretary of State, notice of the intention to apply for confirmation shall be given by the airport operator in one or more local newspapers circulating in the locality in which the airport to which the byelaws relate is situated or (if the byelaws relate to more than one airport) circulating respectively in the several localities in which those airports are situated; and the notice shall specify a period of not less than one month during which representations on the byelaws may be made to the Secretary of State.

4E+W+SFor at least one month before application for confirmation is made, a copy of the byelaws shall be deposited at the offices of the airport operator at each airport to which the byelaws relate and shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to public inspection free of charge.

5E+W+SThe airport operator shall, on application made by any person before the byelaws are confirmed, furnish him with a copy of the byelaws or of any part of them on payment of such reasonable fee as the airport operator may determine.

6E+W+SThe Secretary of State may confirm with or without modifications, or refuse to confirm, any byelaw submitted to him for confirmation, and may fix the date on which a byelaw confirmed by him is to come into operation; and if no date is so fixed, the byelaw shall come into operation at the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is confirmed.

7E+W+SA copy of the byelaws, when confirmed, shall be printed and deposited at the offices of the airport operator at each airport to which they relate and shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to public inspection free of charge; and a copy of the byelaws shall on application be furnished to any person on payment of such reasonable fee as the airport operator may determine.

8E+W+SThe production of a printed copy of a byelaw purporting to be made by an airport operator upon which is endorsed a certificate purporting to be signed by a person authorised for the purpose by the airport operator and stating—

(a)that the byelaw was made by the airport operator,

(b)that the copy is a true copy of the byelaw,

(c)that on a specified date the byelaw was confirmed by the Secretary of State, and

(d)the date, if any, fixed by the Secretary of State for the coming into operation of the byelaw,

shall be evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of the facts stated in the certificate, without proof of the handwriting or authorisation of the person by whom it purports to be signed.