Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,168, 28 ta’ Diçembru, 2007

L.N. 442 of 2007

EUROCONTROL ACT

(CAP. 333)

Civil Aviation (Route Charges for Navigation Services)

(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 3 of the Eurocontrol

Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications, with the

concurrence of the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, has made

the following regulations>

(1) The title of these regulations is the Civil Aviation (Route Citation and

commencement.

Charges for Navigation Services) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations,

2007 and they shall be read and construed as one with the Civil Aviation

(Route Charges for Navigation Services) Regulations, 2002 hereinafter L.N. 386 of 2002.

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 1st

January, 2008.

The rate of interest on late payment shall be 9.24 per cent per annum.”.

Mitbug[ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern — Printed at the Government Printing Press

Lm0.04 (€0.09)

For regulation 4 (1) of the principal regulations there shall be Substitutes

regulation 4 (1) of

substituted the following>-

the principal

regulations.

“4. (1) The charge shall be calculated in Euro according

to the following formula>

r = n x u

where r is the charge for the flight, n is the number of service

units relating to that flight and u is the appropriate unit rate

specified in column 3 of the First Schedule to these

regulations.”.

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends regulation

5 of the principal

follows>-

regulations.

(a) in paragraph (2) thereof the words “performance of

flight” shall be substituted by the words “performance of the flight”<

and

(b) for paragraph (6) thereof there shall be substituted the

following>-

“(6) Without prejudice to any existing rule of law

relating to the payment, under an order of the court, of a debt,

the amount of the charge may be recovered in any court of

competent jurisdiction in Malta.”< and

(c)

paragraphs (8) and (9) shall be deleted.

For the First and Second Schedules to the principal regulations

there shall be substituted the following>-

“FIRST SCHEDULE

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Publication in

Unit rate

Established at the official

which FIR is

in Euro

rate of exchange

described

Malta AIP

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