The Civil Aviation (Chargeable Air Services) (Detention and Sale of Aircraft) Regulations 2001

Content and service of the notice under paragraph 1

2.—(1) A notice under paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall—

(a) state the nationality and registration marks of the aircraft;

(b) state the type of aircraft;

(c) state that by reason of default in the payment of a sum specified by the CAA under section 73(1) of the Transport Act 2000, the CAA, on a date which shall be specified in the notice, detained the aircraft under these Regulations and, unless payment of the sum so due is made within a period of 56 days from the date when the detention began, or within 21 days of the date of service of the notice, whichever shall be the later, will apply to the court for leave to sell the aircraft; and

(d) invite the person to whom the notice is given to inform the CAA within 14 days of the service of the notice if he wishes to become a party to the proceedings on the application.

(2) A notice under paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be served—

(a) by delivering it to the person to whom it is to be sent;

(b) by leaving it at his usual or last known place of business or abode;

(c) by sending it, addressed to him at his usual or last known place of business or abode, by a registered post service or by a postal service which provided for the delivery of the notice by post to be recorded; or

(d) if the person to whom it is to be sent is an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to the secretary, clerk or other appropriate officer of the company or body at its registered or principal office or sending it, addressed to the secretary, clerk or other officer of the company or body at that office, by a registered post service or by a postal service which provides for the delivery of the notice by post to be recorded.

(3) Any notice which is sent by a postal service in accordance with the preceding paragraph to a place outside the United Kingdom shall be sent by air mail or by some other equally expeditious means.

(4) In this Schedule, the expressions “registered post service” and “postal service” have the meaning those expressions bear in section 125(1) of the Postal Services Act 2000(1).

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2000 c. 26.