Gloucestershire Airport Ltd Byelaws 1997

Gloucestershire Airport Limited, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 63 and 64 of the Airports Act 1986 and section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following byelaws which shall apply within Gloucestershire Airport.

1. Interpretation

(1) In these byelaws:-

"the airport"

means the airport known as Gloucestershire Airport;

"the airport manager"

means the person for the time being employed by the company to be in charge of the airport and includes any other person acting as his appointed representative in charge of the airport;

"an airport official"

means the airport manager and any person authorised in writing by the airport manager on behalf of the company pursuant to subsection 63(4) of the Airports Act 1986;

"the company"

means Gloucestershire Airport Limited and where the context so requires references in these byelaws to the company shall include a reference to any successor to Gloucestershire Airport Limited as operator of the airport.

"designated"

shall mean an area or position on the aerodrome notified by radio message, surface markings, or signals or verbal instruction by an airport official.

"notice"

means any notice erected by or on behalf of the company;

"vehicle"

does not include an aircraft.

(2) These byelaws may be cited as the Gloucestershire Airport Limited Byelaws 1997

2. Revocation of Previous Byelaws

The Byelaws relating to Staverton Airport and dated 23 March 1971 are hereby revoked.

3. Aircraft

(1) No person shall without reasonable excuse place an aircraft other than in the place and position designated.

(2) No person shall without reasonable excuse fail to moor properly or otherwise secure any stationary aircraft which is not in a hangar.

(3) No person shall run an aircraft engine in a hangar or in an area other than that designated by the airport manager.

(4) No person shall enter or climb upon, or attempt to enter or climb upon, any part of any aircraft without the authority of the person in charge of it or otherwise without lawful authority or reasonable cause or excuse.

(5) No person shall tamper with any aircraft or anything used in connection with any aircraft without lawful authority or reasonable cause or excuse.

4. Access to the Airport

(1) No person shall fail to comply with any notice displayed by the company prohibiting or restricting access to any building, road or any part of the airport.

(2) No person shall allow any vehicle, animal or thing to be on the airport or any part thereof after its presence on the airport has been forbidden by a constable or an airport official or after having been required by a constable or an airport official to remove it, provided that the constable or an airport official has reasonable grounds to believe that its presence has been responsible for or is about to be responsible for a breach of a byelaw or for a criminal offence.

No person shall enter or remain on the airport, or any part thereof after having been prohibited from entering or been requested to leave by an airport official or a constable, who has reasonable grounds to believe that his presence has been responsible for or is about to be responsible for a breach of a byelaw or for a criminal offence.

(4) No person shall enter the airport other than to make proper use of the airport, whilst having been prohibited from entering by a constable or an airport official.

No person shall enter or leave the airport otherwise than through a gate or entrance for the time being provided by the company for that purpose.

5. Airport Property and Premises

(1) No person shall, except in the case of an emergency, intentionally operate any switch or lever of any apparatus or equipment used by the company upon or near which is displayed a notice stating that it is intended only to be operated in case of emergency.

(2) No person shall in the airport drop or leave litter other than in a receptacle provided by the company for such purpose.

(3) No person shall climb any wall, fence barrier, railing or post.

(4) No person shall graze animals without the permission of the company.

No person shall erect, place, or alter any structure or other property (including any notice) on any part of the airport.

(6) No person shall tamper with or misuse, or attempt to tamper with or misuse, conveyor belt, power-operated gangway, or any mechanical, electrical or electronic apparatus without lawful authority or reasonable cause or excuse.

(7) No person shall enter or get on or attempt to enter or get on any vehicle, truck, trolley or aircraft steps or tamper with the brake or other part of its mechanism without lawful authority or reasonable cause or excuse.

6. Electronic and Radio Transmitting and Receiving Apparatus

(1) No person shall operate or use any radio transmitter or other thing capable of radiating electrical interference, in such a way as to prejudice, or be likely to prejudice, the operation of any communications or navigation systems at the airport.

(2) No person shall tamper or interfere with or misuse any apparatus provided for transmitting and receiving messages or other telecommunications apparatus or navigational or landing equipment provided for the use of the airport.

(3) No person shall by operating or causing or suffering to be operated any wireless set, gramophone, amplifier, tape recorder or similar instrument or any musical instrument make, cause or suffer to be made any noise which is so loud or so continuous or repeated as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to other persons on the airport.

7. Prevention of Fire

(1) No person shall smoke or bring a naked light into or light any naked light in any place:

(a) where any such act is prohibited by notice; or

(b) within 15 metres of any aircraft or any liquid fuel, gas, explosives or other highly flammable material.

(2) No person shall light a fire other than in a place constructed for that purpose.

(3) No person shall intentionally obstruct any emergency exit on any part of the airport.

(4) No person shall use, cause or permit to be used any vehicle unless the fuel and exhaust systems are at all times such that no danger is caused or is likely to be caused to persons, aircraft or property.

8. Control of Vehicles

The following prohibitions apply on any part of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply:-

(1) No person shall without the permission of the airport manager drive, park or leave a vehicle elsewhere than in a place provided for that purpose.

(2) No person shall:

(a) drive a vehicle dangerously;

(b) drive a vehicle without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using that part of the airport; or

(c) drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of 30 mph or such other speed indicated on a notice erected in a conspicuous and appropriate position, which shall not in any event be less than 10 mph; and for the purposes of this byelaw, 'dangerously' shall have the meaning in Section 2A of the Road Traffic Act 1988.

(3) No person shall use, cause or permit to be used, any vehicle or trailer for any purpose for which it is so unsuitable as to cause, or be likely to cause, danger to any person or aircraft.

(4) No person on foot, or whilst driving or propelling a vehicle shall, except in the case of an emergency, neglect, fail or refuse to comply with an indication or direction given by a constable or an airport official where the indication, direction or notice is given or erected for the purpose of preventing an obstruction within the airport, or regulating vehicular traffic within the airport, or prohibiting or restricting access to any part of the airport.

(5) No person shall, except in the case of an emergency, leave or park a vehicle or cause it to wait for a period in excess of the permitted time in an area where the period of waiting is restricted by notice.

(6) No person in charge of a vehicle or trailer shall, except in the case of an emergency, cause or permit the vehicle or trailer to stand so as to cause any obstruction, or so as to be likely to cause danger to person, aircraft or property.

(7) No person shall use, cause or permit to be used any vehicles failing to comply in any way with lighting, braking, steering, and electrical requirements which apply to that type of vehicle when on a road to which the road traffic enactments do apply, including the maintenance and adjustment of the brakes, steering gear and lights.

(8) No person shall use, cause or permit to be used; any vehicle or trailer in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause damage or nuisance to any person in or on any part of the airport;

(9) No person shall cause or permit except in the case of an emergency, any vehicle, trailer, aircraft servicing equipment or persons to enter that part of the airport licensed for the surface movement of aircraft including runways, aprons and taxi-ways and any part of the airport provided for the maintenance of aircraft except those parts specifically notified by the company for use by such vehicle, trailer or aircraft servicing equipment or persons.

9. Prevention of Nuisances

(1) No person shall, without reasonable excuse, permit a dog to enter or remain on any part of the airport unless the dog is held on a lead and is restrained from behaviour giving reasonable grounds for annoyance.

(2) No person shall in the airport:

(a) intentionally obstruct any airport official in the proper execution of his duties;

(b) intentionally obstruct any person carrying out an act which is necessary to the proper execution of any contract with the company; or

(c) intentionally obstruct any other person in the proper use of the airport, or behave so as to give reasonable grounds for annoyance to other persons in the airport.

(3) A person shall, if so requested by a constable, or an airport official state his correct name and address and the purpose of his being on the airport.

10. General

(1) No person shall without the written approval of the company store or supply fuel or lubricants for aircraft using the airport.

(2) No person shall without due diligence fill or discharge from any container including any part of a vehicle, liquid fuel elsewhere than in a place approved for that purpose by the airport manager

11. Penalties

Level 4 penalties are applicable to Byelaws 3(1) - 3(5), 7(1) - 7(4), 5(1), 6(1) - 6(3), 8(2) - 8(4) and 8(6) - 8(9)

Level 3 penalties will apply to all other Byelaws.

 

The Common Seal of Gloucestershire Airport Limited Was Hereunto Affixed In The Presence Of:-

John Monaghan
Company Secretary
Director

The foregoing byelaws are hereby confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport and shall come into operation on 1st November 1997.

 

Signed by authority of	R Fawcett
the Secretary of State	An Assistant Secretary in the
30th September 1997	Department of Transport