Regulation 5 Payment

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.5(1) amended by Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) 1998 reg.2(2)
reg.5(4) amended by Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) 1998 reg.2(3)
regs.5(5),6(1) amended by Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services) (Second Amendment) 1998 reg.2(2)

(1)

The amount of the charge shall be payable to Eurocontrol at its principal office in Brussels and shall be paid in ECUs.

(2)

The equivalent in sterling of the charge may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the United Kingdom.

(3)

If the amount of the charge payable under regulation 4(1) is not paid in cleared funds by the operator of the aircraft within 30 days of the date payment is demanded by Eurocontrol, interest calculated in accordance with paragraph (4) below on the unpaid amount shall be paid from that day until the date when cleared funds are received by Eurocontrol.

(4)

Interest payable under paragraph (3) shall be simple interest calculated from day to day at the rate of 7.73%.

(5)

Nothing in this regulation shall prevent Eurocontrol from accepting as a good discharge payment other than in ECUs or at places other than the principal office of Eurocontrol.