{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2389",
  "legislation_title": "The Airports (Groundhandling) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Reciprocity",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that a third country, with respect to access to the groundhandling or self-handling market:\n(a) does not, de jure or de facto, grant suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users from the United Kingdom ... treatment comparable to that granted by the United Kingdom ... to suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users from that third country; or\n(b) grant suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users from that third country or from other third countries more favourable treatment than suppliers of groundhandling services and self-handling airport users from the United Kingdom ...\nthe Secretary of State may wholly or partially suspend the obligations arising from these Regulations in respect of suppliers of groundhandling services and airport users from that third country.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this regulation “third country” means any country or territory other than the United Kingdom ... or Gibraltar.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 7(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 7(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 7(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 19(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 7(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Airports (Groundhandling) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1088), regs. 1, 7(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 1.1.1998 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 1.1.1999 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(5)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 1.1.2001 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(5)(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2389/regulation/19",
    "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."
}