{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/31",
  "legislation_title": "Airports Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Public airport companies and their controlling authorities.",
  "text": "(1) References in this Part to a public airport company are references to a company (whether formed under section 13 or not) which carries on the business of operating an airport as a commercial undertaking and is for the time being either—\n(a) a subsidiary of a single principal council, or\n(b) a subsidiary of two or more such councils.\n(2) In this Part of this Act—\n(a) references to the controlling authority of a public airport company are references to the principal council or principal councils of whom it is for the time being a subsidiary as mentioned in subsection (1); and\n(b) references to a composite authority are references to a controlling authority consisting of two or more principal councils, the councils concerned being referred to as the constituent councils of that authority.\n(3) For the purposes of this Part a public airport company is an associated company of a principal council if that council are its controlling authority or one of the constituent councils of a composite authority who are its controlling authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended (S)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1994/39",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/31/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:57:14.644210+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}