{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/31",
  "legislation_title": "Airports Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Local authority capital controls in Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) Any liability to meet capital expenses incurred by a public airport company, or by a subsidiary of such a company, shall, in the case of a company whose controlling authority are an authority to whom section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (consent of Secretary of State required for the incurring of liability to meet capital expenses) applies, be treated for the purposes of that section as a liability to meet capital expenses incurred by the company’s controlling authority.\n(2) It shall be the duty of the controlling authority of a public airport company to exercise their control over the company so as to ensure that the company appoints as auditors of the company only persons who, in addition to meeting the requirements of Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006 (statutory auditors) , are approved for appointment as such auditors by the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland.\n(3) This section applies to Scotland only.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 23(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 12(3) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "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/23",
    "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."
}