{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2389",
  "legislation_title": "The Airports (Groundhandling) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Groundhandling for third parties",
  "text": "(1) The CAA may, on an application made to it by the managing body of an airport, determine that, at the airport or part of the airport, the number of suppliers authorised to provide one or more airside services to third parties shall be limited.\n(2) A determination made pursuant to paragraph (1) above shall specify:\n(a) the airport and, where appropriate, the part of the airport to which it applies;\n(b) the airside services to which it relates;\n(c) the number of suppliers authorised to provide those services, which shall be no fewer than two for each category of such services; and\n(d) save where it is made by virtue of paragraph (4) below, the date on which it takes effect.\n(3) A determination made pursuant to paragraph (1) above shall not take effect earlier than—\n(a) at a category A airport, 1st January 1999; or\n(b) at a category B airport, 1st January 2001.\n(4) A determination may be made pursuant to paragraph (1) above in relation to an airport appearing to the CAA to be about to become a category A or a category B airport.\n(5) Save where, by virtue of paragraph (7) below, the determination is deemed not to have been made, where an airport in relation to which a determination has been made by virtue of paragraph (4) above becomes a category A or, as the case may be, a category B airport, the managing body of that airport shall serve on the CAA notice to that effect.\n(6) Subject to paragraph (3) above and (7) below, a determination made by virtue of paragraph (4) above shall take effect on the date on which the CAA publishes a notice in its Official Record in accordance with paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.\n(7) Where a determination is made by virtue of paragraph (4) above and the CAA has not received from the managing body of the airport within the period of 18 months beginning on the date on which the determination was made a notice in accordance with paragraph (5) above, the determination shall be deemed not to have been made.\n(8) On its own proposal or on an application made to it by—\n(a) the managing body of the airport concerned;\n(b) a supplier of groundhandling services; or\n(c) an airport user\nthe CAA may vary from time to time or revoke a determination made pursuant to paragraph (1) above.\n(9) Where an application is made pursuant to paragraph (1) above or where an application or a proposal is made pursuant to paragraph (8) above, the provisions of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, in so far as they relate to such applications or, as the case may be, proposals, shall apply.\n(10) In any case where the number of suppliers of groundhandling services is restricted pursuant to paragraph (1) above, the Secretary of State, the CAA and the managing body of the airport concerned shall not prevent an airport user, whatever part of the airport is allocated to him, from having, in respect of each category of groundhandling services subject to that restriction, an effective choice between at least two suppliers of groundhandling services, at least one of whom meets the condition in paragraph (11).\n(11) The condition is that the supplier is not directly or indirectly controlled by—\n(a) the managing body of the airport;\n(b) any person controlling, or directly or indirectly controlled by, that managing body;\n(c) any airport user which, during the calendar year preceding that in which that supplier was selected, has carried more than 25% of the passengers or freight recorded at the airport; or\n(d) any person controlling, or directly or indirectly controlled by, any such airport user.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10(10) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 4(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 10(11) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 4(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 27.10.1997, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2389/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:50:54.279549+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."
}