The Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2012

This Statutory Instrument is being made for the same purposes as SI 2010/575 and replaces that Statutory Instrument. This Order is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of SI 2010/575.

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 837

Civil Aviation

Aviation Security

The Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2012

Made

13th March 2012

Laid before Parliament

19th March 2012

Coming into force

16th April 2012

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred by section 25AA(2) of the Aviation Security Act 1982(1), makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2012 and shall come into force on 16th April 2012.

Belfast International Airport

2.  Belfast International Airport, being an aerodrome to which Part 2A of the Aviation Security Act 1982 applies, is not a relevant aerodrome for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act.

Revocation

3.  The Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2010(2) is revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Theresa Villiers

Minister of State

Department for Transport

13th March 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides that Belfast International Airport is not a “relevant aerodrome” for the purposes of Part 3 of the Aviation Security Act 1982 and accordingly does not require a police services agreement (specifying levels of policing and funding for policing by the aerodrome manager) and is not subject to the provisions of section 26(1) of the Act (which relate to the powers of constables and members of an aerodrome constabulary).

This Order replaces the Policing of Aerodromes (Belfast International Airport) Order 2010 (SI 2010/575) and is being made in the light of the comments about that order given by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments in its first report of the 2010-2012 session of Parliament. The report is available at:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201011/jtselect/jtstatin/19/19.pdf.

An impact assessment has not been produced as no additional impact on the costs to business, the public sector, civil society organisations, regulators or consumers to that set out in the final impact assessment on Airport Policing, Funding and Security Planning is foreseen. That final impact assessment was produced in December 2008 to accompany the Policing and Crime Bill and can be found at:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100927131008/http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/archive/2008/airportpolicing/revisedimpactassessmet.pdf

(1)

1982 c.36; Part 2A of the 1982 Act is inserted by section 79 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009(c.26) and Part 3 of the 1982 Act is amended by Schedule 6 to the 2009 Act.

(2)

S.I. 2010/575.