http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/31/section/23Airports Act 1986An Act to provide for the dissolution of the British Airports Authority and the vesting of its property, rights and liabilities in a company nominated by the Secretary of State; to provide for the reorganisation of other airport undertakings in the public sector; to provide for the regulation of the use of airports and for the imposition of economic controls at certain airports; to make other amendments of the law relating to airports; to make provision with respect to the control of capital expenditure by local authority airport undertakings; and for connected purposes.1986-07-08texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-05-05Expert Participation2026-04-06 Airports Act 1986s. 59(7)(8)Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026Deddf Cynllunio (Darpariaethau Canlyniadol) (Cymru) 2026Sch. 2 para. 215(b)Sch. 5 Pt. 1s. 5(2)Airports Act 1986s. 61(6)(aa)Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Wales) Act 2026Deddf Cynllunio (Darpariaethau Canlyniadol) (Cymru) 2026Sch. 2 para. 216(6)(c)Sch. 5 Pt. 1s. 5(2)Airports Act 1986ActScotland Act 1998s. 30 Sch. 5 Pt. 2 s. E4(f)Airports Act 1986s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (aa)Local Government (Wales) Act 1994s. 66(6) Sch. 16 para. 77Airports Act 1986s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (a)Local Government (Wales) Act 1994s. 66(6)(8) Sch. 16 para. 77 Sch. 18Airports Act 1986s. 12(1) (defns. "local authority""principal council") para. (b)Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994Sch. 13 para. 147Airports Act 1986ActThe Local Authorities (Executive and Alternative Arrangements) (Modification of Enactments and Other Provisions) (England) Order 2001art. 2 Part II231Any liability to meet capital expenses incurred by a public airport company, or by a subsidiary of such a company, shall, in the case of a company whose controlling authority are an authority to whom section 94 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (consent of Secretary of State required for the incurring of liability to meet capital expenses) applies, be treated for the purposes of that section as a liability to meet capital expenses incurred by the company’s controlling authority.2It shall be the duty of the controlling authority of a public airport company to exercise their control over the company so as to ensure that the company appoints as auditors of the company only persons who, in addition to meeting the requirements of Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006 (statutory auditors) , are approved for appointment as such auditors by the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland.3This section applies to Scotland only.Words in s. 23(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 12(3) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)