The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) Regulations 1995

Who may provide flight accommodation

3.—(1) No person shall, in the United Kingdom, make available flight accommoda-tion unless:

(a) he will be the operator or reasonably believes that he will be the operator of the relevant aircraft when the flight is made (in these Regulations called “an operator”);

(b) he holds a licence authorising him to do so, and the terms of the licence are complied with so far as they relate to the provision of that accommodation (in these Regulations called “a licence holder”);

(c) he is acting as agent on behalf and with the authority of a disclosed identified principal who is a licence holder (in these Regulations called “an agent for a licence holder”);

(d) he is a person who is exempted by the Authority under regulation 5 from the need to hold a licence (in these Regulations called “an exempted person”); or

(e) before accepting any payment he supplies a valid ticket in accordance with regulation 4 in respect of any flight accommodation which he makes available (in these Regulations called “a ticket provider”).

(2) No person shall, in the United Kingdom, hold himself out as a person who may make available flight accommodation unless:

(a) (i) he is entitled to make available that accommodation as an operator, a licence holder, an agent for a licence holder or an exempted person; or

(ii) he is capable of supplying a valid ticket in accordance with regulation 4 for any flight accommodation in respect of which he holds himself out as being able to make available; and

(b) at all times in the course of holding himself out as a person who may make available flight accommodation, he discloses the capacity in which he is entitled to make that accommodation available.