Airports Act 1986 byelaws

Relating to Leeds Bradford International Airport

Leeds Bradford International Airport Limited
hereby makes the following Byelaws under Section 63 of and
Schedule 3 to the Airports Act 1986

Interpretation

(i) In these Byelaws:-

1. "the Company" means Leeds Bradford lnternational Airport Limited;

"the Board" means the Board of Directors of Leeds Bradford lnternational
Airport Limited or predecessor Committee;

"the airport" means the area of land for the time being constituting Leeds
Bradford I nternational Airport;

"the Airport Managing Director" means the Managing Director of the Company
and includes any other person for the time being in charge of the Airport;

"constable2 includes a special constable;

"airport official" means a person authorised by the Company;

"road traffic enactments" means the enactments relating to road traffic
(whether passed before or after these Byelaws) including the lighting and
parking of vehicles, and any order or other instrument having effect by virtue
of any such enactment;

"taxi" means any vehicle for the conveyance of passengers which plies for
hire and is not a public service vehicle within the meaning of the Public
Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 or any statutory modification or re-enactment
thereof;

"vehicle" does not include an aircraft;

"immobilisation device" means any device or appliance designed or adapted
to be fixed to a vehicle for the purpose of preventing it from being driven or
otherwise put in motion.

(ii) The Interpretation Act 1978 applies to the interpretation of these Byelaws as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Prohibited Acts

2. Within the airport in the absence of lawful authority or reasonable excuse, the following acts are prohibited:-

(1) intentionally obstructing or interfering with the proper use of the airport;

(2) intentionally obstructing any person acting in the execution of his duty
in relation to the airport;

(3) failing to comply with any notice prohibiting or restricting access to any
building, road or any part of the airport;

(4) allowing any vehicle, animal or thing to be on the airport after having
been required to remove it or after its presence on the airport has been
forbidden by a constable or an airport official;

(5) boarding or climbing upon or attempting to board or climb upon any
aircraft without the authority of the person in charge of it;

(6) intentionally operating any switch or lever of any escalator lift or door
upon or near which is displayed a notice that it is intended only to be
operated in an emergency;

(7) tampering with, interfering with or misusing any lift, escalator, conveyor
belt, power operated gangway or any mechanical or electronic equipment;

(8) tampering with, interfering with or misusing any apparatus provided for
transmitting and receiving messages with the exception of offences
under the Telecommunications Act 1984;

(9) smoking in or otherwise bringing or lighting any naked light into or in
any place where any such act is prohibited by notice;

(10) climbing any wall, fence, barrier, railing or post;

(11) on the Airport Apron throwing, leaving or dropping anything capable of
causing injury to any person or property;

(12) intentionally giving a false fire, ambulance, bomb warning or other
emergency alarm by any means;

(13) failure to place an aircraft or any device, appliance or other thing
incidental or,ancillary thereto in the place and position appointed for
that purpose by the Airport Managing Director or a person authorised
by him in that behalf;

(14) failure properly to moor or othenruise secure any station ary aircraft
which is not in a hangar;

(15) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
driving or placing a vehicle carelessly or recklessly or without due
consideration for persons using the airport;

(16) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
failure by the driver of a vehicle to stop when required by a constable
or airport official to do so;

(17) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
failure by the driver of a vehicle which is involved in an accident to give
his name and address and the name and address of the owner of the
vehicle to any person having reasonable grounds for requiring them;

(18) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
failure by the driver of a vehicle forthwith to stop after any accident
occurs and report the accident to a constable or to the Airport
Managing Director as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event
before leaving the airport;

(19) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
failure by the driver of a vehicle to comply with any direction for the
regulation of traffic given by a constable or a traffic sign;

(20) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
parking a vehicle elsewhere than in a place provided for that purpose;

(21) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
failure by the person in charge of a vehicle to remove it from any
parking place when required to do so;

(22) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
leaving or parking a vehicle in excess of the permitted time in an area
where the period of waiting is restricted by notice;

(23) (i) permitting a dog to enter or remain on any part of the airport
where to do so is prohibited by notice;

(ii) permitting a dog to enter or remain on any other part of the
airport unless the dog is held on a lead and is restrained from
behaviour giving reasonable grounds for annoyance;

Notice of the effect of Byelaw 23 (ii) shall be given by signs placed in
conspicuous positions on the approaches to the parts of the airport to
which it refers.

(24) soliciting funds or contributions of any kind with the exception of
offences under the Vagrancy Act 1824;

(25) failure to comply with any request by a constable or an airport official to
leave the airport or any particular part thereof or to state name and
address and the purpose of being on the airport provided that such
airport official shall provide written evidence of his authority if required
to do so;

Acts for which Permission is Required

3. Within the airport the following acts are prohibited without the prior permission of the Managing Director or the Board or reasonable excuse:-

(1) knowingly entering or leaving the airport otherwise than through a gate
or entrance for the time being provided for that purpose;

(2) knowingly entering any part of the airport to which members of the
public are not for the time being admitted;

(3) grazing animals;

(4) selling or distributing anything, offering anything for sale or hire, or
making any offer of services for reward;

(5) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
leaving a vehicle on the airport longer than is reasonably necessary for
the transaction of the business for the purposes of which it was brought
there;

(6) on parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply,
driving a vehicle elsewhere than in a place provided for the passage or
accommodation of such a vehicle;

(7) taking a motor vehicle into a hangar used for the maintenance or
storage of aircraft;

(8) running an aircraft engine in a hangar;

(9) filling or discharging from any container (including any part of a vehicle)
liquid fuel elsewhere than in a place approved for that purpose by the
Airport Managing Director;

(10) by any act or omission causing a fire to occur elsewhere than in a
place provided for that purpose by the Company;

(11) cleaning, servicing or maintaining aircraft, vehicles or equipment or
running aircraft engines in areas other than those designated for the
purpose;

(12) playing a musical instrument or erecting or using any apparatus for
transmission, receipt, recording, reproduction or amplification of sound,
speech or images or any computer;

(13) driving or leaving on a road to which the road traffic enactments do not
apply any vehicle failing to comply in any way with the lighting
requirements which apply to roads to which the road traffic enactments
do apply and in particular covering obligatory front and rear lamps,
reversing lights, reflectors, lamps indicating overhanging or pro¡ecting
loads, or additional lamps on long vehicles or trailers;

(14) intentionally operating or using in such a way as to prejudice the
operation of any communications, navigation or other systems at the
airport any radio transmitter or other thing capable of radiating or
generating electrical interference.

Taxis

4. (1) No person shall without reasonable excuse, stand or park a taxi on the
airport for the purpose of plying for hire unless he has been authorised
so to do by the Board;

(2) No person shall without reasonable excuse ply for hire with a taxi
except on an authorised standing appointed for that purpose;

(3) The drivers of the first two taxis on an authorised standing shall be with
their taxis available for hiring immediately;

(4) No person shall without reasonable excuse leave his taxi on an
authorised standing unless willing to be hired immediately;

(5) Drivers shall move up their taxis on an authorised standing to fill
vacancies as they occur and vacancies shall not be filled in any other
manner;

(6) Disabled taxis shall not without reasonable excuse be left by their
drivers on an authorised standing longer than is reasonably necessary
to effect removal unless such disablement is temporary and is
remedied without delay;

(7) Taxi drivers shall not without reasonable excuse obstruct any
carriageway, footway or building or give reasonable cause for
annoyance or disturbance to persons in the airport;

(8) No person shall on the airport without reasonable excuse wash down
or clean out a taxi;

Vehicle Immobilisation and Removal

5. (1) On parts of the airport to which the road traffic enactments do not apply
if it appears to a constable or an airport official that a vehicle has been
parked or left by any persons in contravention of Byelaws 2 (15),2
(19),2 (20),2 (21) or 2 (22) then instead of causing that person to be prosecuted under Byelaw 6 he may fix an immobilisation device to the
vehicle while it remains in the place in which he finds it, or he may
cause that vehicle to be removed in such manner and to such place on
the Airport as he thinks fit.

(2) On any occasion when an immobilisation device is fixed to a vehicle in
accordance with this Byelaw the constable or airport official fixing the
device shall also affix to the vehicle a notice:-

(a) indicating that such a device has been fixed to the vehicle and
warning that no attempt should be made to drive it or otherwise
put it in motion until it has been released from that device;

(b) specifying the steps to be taken in order to secure its release.

(3) A notice affixed to a vehicle under this Byelaw shall not be removed or
interfered with except by or under the authority of the person in charge
of the vehicle or the person by whom it was put in the place where it
was found by the constable or airport official.

(4) A vehicle to which an immobilisation device has been fixed in
accordance with this Byelaw may only be released from that device by
or under the direction of a constable or airport official.

(5) Subject to Byelaw 5 (a) a vehicle to which an immobilisation device has
been fixed in accordance with this Byelaw shall be released from that
device on payment to the Company in any manner specified in the
notice affixed to the vehicle under Byelaw 5 (2) of such charge in
respect of the release as may from time to time be prescribed by the
Secretary of State for this purpose in connection with roads subject to
the road traffic enactments.

(6) A vehicle which has been removed under Byelaw 5 (1) hereof shall be
released only on payment to the Company of the appropriate fees
referred to in paragraphs 3 and 6 of the "Removal, Storage and
Disposal of Vehicles (Charges) Regulations 1985" or any statutory
amendment or replacement thereof.

6. Without prejudice to Byelaw 5 hereof any person without reasonable excuse
committing an offence against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable for
every such offence on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the amount
at level 3 on the standard scale except that in respect of Byelaws 2 (8), 2 (9),
2 (12), 2 (17), 2 (18), 3 (3), 3 (4), 3 (6) and 3 (14) the penalty shall not exceed
the amount at level 4 on the standard scale for every offence.

7. (a) These Byelaws may be cited as the Leeds Bradford lnternational
Airport Byelaws 1990.

(b) The Leeds and Bradford Airport Byelaws 1969 are hereby revoked.

Dated this 22nd day of February 1990

THE COMMON SEAL of Leeds Bradford International Airport Limited was hereto affixed in the presence of:-

(A.R. Sykes) Solicitor to the Company Secretary

Pursuant to Section 63 (5) and Schedule 3, paragraph 6 of the Airports Act 1986, the foregoing byelaws are hereby confirmed by the Secretary of State for Transport.

Signed by authority of The Secretary of State For Transport

An Assistant Secretary In the Department of Transport

1st March 1991