SCHEDULE 9Certain amendments of sectoral enactments
Part 1Power of enforcement orders to amend licence conditions etc.
Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/426 (N.I. 1))
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(1)
Article 45 of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (modification of certain conditions in force under Part 4 of that Order) shall be amended as follows.
(2)
“(1)
Where the Office of Fair Trading, the Competition Commission or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State (in this Article “the relevant authority”) makes a relevant order, the order may also provide for the revocation or modification of any relevant conditions to such extent as may appear to the relevant authority to be requisite or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to, or taking account of, any provision made by the order.
(1A)
In paragraph (1) “relevant order” means—
(a)
an order under section 75, 83 or 84 of, or paragraph 5, 10 or 11 of Schedule 7 to, the Enterprise Act 2002 where—
(i)
one or more than one of the enterprises which have, or may have, ceased to be distinct enterprises was carried on by an airport operator; or
(ii)
one or more than one of the enterprises which will or may cease to be distinct enterprises is carried on by an airport operator; or
(b)
an order under section 160 or 161 of that Act where the feature, or combination of features, of the market in the United Kingdom for goods or services which prevents, restricts or distorts competition relates to the carrying on of any operational activities relating to one or more than one airport.”
(3)
Paragraph (3) shall cease to have effect.
(4)
“(4)
Expressions used in paragraph (1A) and in Part 3 or (as the case may be) Part 4 of the Enterprise Act 2002 have the same meanings in that paragraph as in that Part.”