SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Provisions relating to Parts II and III

1

1

Until the coming into operation of Article 28, references in Articles 3, 7, 10, 25 and 26 to a regulated airport shall be construed as references to an airport to which this paragraph applies.

2

This paragraph applies to an airport if the annual turnover of the business carried on at the airport by the airport operator exceeded £1 million in the case of at least two of the last three financial years ending before the date when this paragraph comes into operation.

3

Paragraphs (11) and (12) of Article 28 apply for the purposes of this paragraph as they apply for the purposes of that Article.

2

Where, immediately before the coming into operation of Article 18, byelaws are in operation under section 10 of the Aerodromes Act (Northern Ireland) 1971F1 in relation to any airport, then—

a

if the airport is managed by a person other than a district council, the airport shall, as from the coming into operation of Article 18, be deemed to have been designated for the purposes of that Article by an order made by the Department; and

b

in any case, those byelaws shall as from the coming into operation of Article 18, have effect as if duly made under that Article.