The Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 388

CIVIL AVIATION

The Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1988

Made

3rd March 1988

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1988

Coming into force

1st April 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of his powers under sections 73 and 74 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

2.  The Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) Regulations 1986(2) shall be further amended as follows—

(1) In regulation 2(1), for the Table there shall be substituted the following new Table—

TABLE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Heathrow—London
For each metric tonne and each fraction of a metric tonne up to 100 metric tonnes	£1.40	£1.18
For each additional metric tonne, and for each fraction of a metric tonne, over 100 tonnes	£0.60	£0.49
Gatwick—London
For each metric tonne and for each fraction of a metric tonne up to 100 metric tonnes	£1.40	£1.18
For each additional metric tonne, and for each fraction of a metric tonne, over 100 metric tonnes	£0.60	£0.49
Stansted—London
For each metric tonne and for each fraction of a metric tonne up to 100 metric tonnes	£1.40	£1.18
For each additional metric tonne, and for each fraction of a metric tonne, over 100 metric tonnes	£0.60	£0.49
Aberdeen (Dyce)	£4.10	£3.45
Edinburgh	£3.85	£3.25
Glasgow	£2.85	£2.40
Prestwick	£3.60	£3.05

(2) In regulation 5 for“a charge of seventy pounds” there shall be substituted“a charge of seventy-four pounds”.

(3) In regulation 6(3) for“a charge of thirty-three pounds” there shall be substituted“a charge of forty pounds”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Peter Bottomley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Transport

2nd March 1988

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Mark Lennox-Boyd

Michael Neubert

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

3rd March 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) Regulations 1986. The following changes are made—

(1) The charges payable to the Civil Aviation Authority for navigation services provided in connection with the use of aerodromes specified in the Table have been changed in respect of Aberdeen (Dyce) where the charge for domestic flights is increased by 6.2% and the charge for international flights is increased by 6.5% and Prestwick where the charge for domestic flights is decreased by 6.2% and the charge for international flights is decreased by 6.5% (regulation 2(1)).

(2) The charge payable to the Civil Aviation Authority by the operator of an aircraft which flies within the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area and in respect of which a flight plan is communicated to the appropriate air traffic control unit is increased from seventy pounds to seventy-four pounds (regulation 2(2)).

(3) The charge payable to the Civil Aviation Authority for a flight made by a helicopter from a point in the United Kingdom to an off-shore installation within the area of the southern North Sea specified in regulation 6(3) of the principal Regulations is increased from thirty-three pounds to forty pounds (regulation 2(3)).

(1)

1982 c. 16; section 73(4) was amended by section 3(2) of the Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Act 1983 (c. 11).

(2)

S.I. 1986/403, as amended by S.I. 1986/2170 and 1987/269.