The Civil Aviation (Access to Air Travel for Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility) Regulations 2014

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Articles” means Articles 2 to 15 of the EC Regulation;

“the CAA” means the Civil Aviation Authority;

“the EC Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No.1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5th July 2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air(1);

“electronic address” includes a fax number and an email address;

“electronic communication” means a communication transmitted (whether from one person to another, from one device to another or from a person to a device or vice versa) by means of an electronic communications network;

“electronic communications network” has the meaning set out in section 32(1) of the Communications Act 2003(2);

“enforcement order” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 11;

“enforcement subject” means a person against whom the CAA would seek an enforcement order or interim enforcement order;

“interim enforcement order” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 12;

“the Montreal Convention” means the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage which was made on 28^th May 1999(3).

(2) In these Regulations “air carrier”, “airport”, “disabled person”, “managing body of an airport”, “operating air carrier”, “person with reduced mobility” and “tour operator” have the same meaning as in the EC Regulation.

(3) A reference to an Article is a reference to that Article in the EC Regulation.

(4) A reference in these Regulations to a document or any other thing in writing includes that document or thing in an electronic form.   

(1)

OJ No. L.204, 26.7.2006, p1.

(2)

2003 c.21. Section 32(1) was amended by regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to, the Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210).

(3)

Cm. 4651.