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This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2012/1017 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 1134

Civil Aviation

The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

23rd April 2012

Laid before Parliament

25th April 2012

Coming into force

29th April 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(3), 7(1) and (2), 71 and 71A of and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 and Part 2 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 3 of Schedule 13 to the Civil Aviation Act 1982(1).

In accordance with sections 71(2) and 71B of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted with the Civil Aviation Authority and the trustees of the Air Travel Trust, and in accordance with paragraph 24(1) of Part 3 of Schedule 7 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007(2), the Secretary of State has consulted with the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and they come into force on 29th April 2012.

Amendment of the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012

2.  The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012(3) are amended as follows—

(a)in regulation 4(3), omit “24(2)(d), 24(3)”;

(b)in regulation 18(1)(b), for “person” substitute “consumer” and renumber 18(1) as regulation 18;

(c)omit regulation 18(2);

(d)in regulation 20(c), for “the name and ATOL number of that agent” substitute “the name and ATOL number of that ATOL holder”;

(e)in regulation 22(2)(c), omit the words “any relevant parts of” and “required to be included under its ATOL”;

(f)in regulation 50(1)(b), for “applicant” substitute “person concerned”;

(g)in regulation 72(d), omit the word “either” from paragraph (a) of the definition of “consumer”; and

(h)in regulation 74(3), for “Paragraphs (2) and (3)” substitute “Paragraphs (1) and (2)”.

Signed on behalf of the Secretary of State

Theresa Villiers

Minister of State

Department for Transport

23rd April 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012.

In addition to minor and drafting amendments, regulation 18(2) of the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012 is deleted.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument because these amendments do not affect the impact assessment prepared in relation to the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012. That assessment has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament and can be found on the Department for Transport website ( http://www.dft.gov.uk).

(1)

1982 c.16. The expression “prescribed” is defined in section 105(1); section 7(2) was amended by sections 37 and 75 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48). Sections 71A and 71B were inserted by section 10 of the Civil Aviation Act 2006 (c.34).

(2)

2007 c.15. The Civil Aviation Authority is a “listed tribunal” for the purposes of Schedule 7 to that Act by virtue of S.I. 2007/2951.