Part IV Economic Regulation of Airports
Supplementary
52 Special provisions relating to groups of airports.
1
Where it appears to the CAA that two or more airports are airports serving the same area in the United Kingdom and either—
a
that they are managed by the same airport operator, or
b
that they are owned by the same person, or by members of the same group of companies, and they operate as a group of airports whose activities are co-ordinated by the airport operators concerned,
any conditions imposed or modified by the CAA in pursuance of section 40(3) or (4) in relation to any one of those airports may be framed so as to prescribe a limit or limits operating by reference to the aggregate of amounts levied by way of airport charges at that airport and amounts so levied at the other airport or airports.
2
In subsection (1) the reference to airports serving the same area in the United Kingdom shall be construed in accordance with section 31(6); and, for the purposes of that subsection, a body corporate and each of its subsidiaries shall be treated as members of a group of companies.