Explanatory note

Documents may now be served by telex or similar means (regulation 2(3));

Procedures are laid down for dealing with cases where an application is made for the substitution of a public use aerodrome licence for an ordinary aerodrome licence or of an ordinary aerodrome licence for a public use aerodrome licence (regulation 2(1), (4) and (5));

An application for the grant, variation, suspension or revocation of an air transport licence must now be republished at 12 monthly intervals if the case has not been set down for hearing: further objections and representations can be made on republication (regulation 2(10) and (12));

Provision is made for preliminary hearings of allegations of behaviour by the holder of an air transport licence which is damaging to a competitor, for provisional variation of the licence pending a substantive hearing and for an appeal to the Secretary of State against the Civil Aviation Authority’s decision following a provisional hearing (regulation 2(1), (2), (6), (7), (8), (9), (11), (13), (14) and (15));

When the Secretary of State, in determining an appeal from a decision of the Civil Aviation Authority in an air transport licensing case, directs the Authority to re-hear the case, he may now determine whether the Authority’s decision is to have effect pending the further decision (regulation 2(16)).