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1972
1972 - 0083.PDF
••Hi NEW LICENSING RULES DRAFT regulations on British licensing procedure circu lated to the industry include provision for preliminary hearings of licence applications by the new Civil Aviation Authority. The procedure, which resembles the US CAB's practice of holding preliminary hearings, would involve a meeting between the applicants, objectors and other parties and officials of the CAA, with the object of reach ing agreement on the main issues at stake, on the evidence to be produced and "generally as to the conduct of the hearing." The Department of Trade and Industry declined Last week to make a copy of the draft regulations available to Flight. It is understood that the regulations will be pub lished at about the same .time as the White Paper con taining policy guidance to the CAA—which is expected in mid-February. In the main the licensing regulations are expected to follow the existing regulations of 1964 which govern the Air Transport Licensing Board's procedures. In addition to the introduction of preliminary hearings, however, there are some proposals for speeding up the handling of unopposed applications, which could be decided by an official rather than a board member of the authority, and of opposed applications, which could be heard by a single . 8SS1 board member. Board members and officials would be able to sit together for hearing cases. The procedure for appeals from CAA decisions is dealt with by the draft much as expected. Appeals will lie to the Department of Trade and Industry, although there will be no oral hearing before a commissioner and no new evidence will be admissible. The CAA will be able to take part in appeal proceedings by making a submission to DoTI explaining or amplifying the reasons for its decision, and will be required to publish DoTI's reasons for appeal decisions. Also being circulated by DoTI—again not for publication —are draft regulations for the licensing of "travel organi sers"—that is to say tour operators. The regulations, to be made under the Civil Aviation Act 1971, will for the first time render organisers subject to penalties (including prison sentences of up to two years) for offences against the licensing requirements. The draft proposes to give broad authority to the CAA for determining the terms of travel organisers' licences. A main objective of the Act and the regulations is to curb the organisation of illegal charters, an activity for which organisers (unlike airlines) cannot under existing law be prosecuted. JAL MAY HELP MALTA JAPAN AIRLINES is formulating its policy on whether to provide managerial assistance to the Malta Government to help it set up the national airline which has been under consideration for about seven years. Teams from JAL in London and Rome, the Japan Lease International Corpora tion and the London branch of the Bank of Tokyo were in Malta to discuss plans before Christmas, but the position following the ultimatum by the Prime Minister of Malta, Dom Mintoff, for the removal of British forces has been Three Concordes were seen together for the first time on January 6, when French-assembled 001 flew from Toulouse to Fairford to make calibration runs down the British west-coast route. British-assembled 002 was also airborne on the same date but was forced to return following an air-conditioning failure. Pre-production Concorde 01 was undergoing engine tests prior to joining the two prototypes for a brief photographic session
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