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Civil Aviation Bill

moved Amendment No. 11:"Page 6, line 40, at end insert—" ““(   )   any body appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of operators of aircraft using the aerodrome,”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, in moving Amendment No. 11, I shall also speak to Amendment No. 12. The amendments make two minor changes to the consultation requirement that subsection (5) of new Section 38B places on the Secretary of State when he proposes to make an order specifying an area within which a non-designated airport’s noise control scheme shall apply. It has become apparent to us that although subsection (5) lists a number of specific statutory consultees—including the CAA, the operator of the airport, local authorities and organisations representing the interests of local people—the operators of aircraft that use the airport are not included in the list. The first of these amendments remedies that omission. It does so using the formulation,"““any body appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of operators of aircraft using the aerodrome””," which is used elsewhere in the Bill, specifically in Clause 3, page 4, line 31. Amendment No. 12 then changes the reference to organisations representing the interests of local people, so that the same formulation is used consistently—that is, that these bodies are those,"““appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative””," of those interests. The effect of this provision—the requirement for the Secretary of State to consult bodies representing the interests of local people—will remain exactly the same. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.