The Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made: 2nd December 1998

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 1998

Coming into force: 1st January 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 73(1)(a) and (6)(a) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982¹ 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) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

2

The Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) Regulations 1998² shall be amended as follows:

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 28th November 1998

We consent to the making of these Regulations

Bob Ainsworth — David Jamieson — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 2nd December 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) Regulations 1998 (“the principal Regulations”) as follows:

The charges payable to the CAA for navigation services provided in connection with the use of the aerodromes specified in the Table in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations have been changed as follows:–

• (a) In respect of the three London Airports, the standard charge for the first 100 metric tonnes maximum total weight authorised of an aircraft, or part thereof, is reduced from £1.21 per metric tonne to £1.06. For each additional metric tonne, or part thereof, in excess of 100 metric tonnes, the standard charge is reduced from £0.50 per metric tonne to £0.44.

• (b) The standard charge at Edinburgh is reduced from £2.20 per metric tonne to £1.96. The standard charge at Glasgow is reduced from £2.16 per metric tonne to £1.84. The standard charge at Aberdeen (Dyce) is unchanged (regulation 2).

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