12.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, before any decision is made on an application published pursuant to paragraph 8 above the following persons shall have the right to be heard:U.K.
(a)the managing body of the airport concerned;
(b)an airport user;
(c)save in the case of an application made pursuant to regulation 15(1) for a determination prohibiting an airport user from self-handling, a supplier of groundhandling services.
(2) No person (other than, in the case of an application referred to in paragraph 3 above, the applicant) shall have a right to be heard unless he has served an objection or representation pursuant to paragraph 10 above and in doing so has stated that he wishes to be heard.
(3) Notwithstanding that a person does not have a right to be heard, where he has served an objection or representation pursuant to paragraph 10 above the CAA may, if it thinks fit, hear him.
(4) No hearing shall be held pursuant to this paragraph unless the CAA has served on all persons having a right to be heard and whom it proposes to hear in connection with the application not less than 14 days' notice of the date, time and place of the hearing, and the notice shall clearly identify the application to which it relates; a similar notice shall be published not less than 7 days before the date of the hearing and shall be exhibited in a public place in the CAA’s principal office during the 7 days immediately preceding the date of the hearing.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 27.10.1997 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(2)
I2Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.1.1998 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(a)
I3Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.1.1999 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(b)(i)
I4Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.1.2001 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(5)(b)(ii)