Singapore legislation
Regulation 21
of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (Price Control of Aeronautical Charges) Rules 2009
Regulation 21
Airport licensee’s duty to consult
Subregulation 1
If the airport licensee is required by the Authority in the notice of aeronautical services and facilities pricing with respect to a regulatory period to consult designated airport users, within a period of one month (or such longer period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case) after receiving such notice, the airport licensee for an airport concerned must —
prepare a draft proposal on the determination to be made, in relation to that airport in that regulatory period;
provide without charge a copy of the draft proposal to the Authority;
make copies of the draft proposal, in both electronic and printed form, available free of charge to the designated airport users relating to the airport for the regulatory period in question; and
start to consult, at its own expense, with those designated airport users for that regulatory period.
Subregulation 2
In carrying out any consultation of the designated airport users for a regulatory period, the airport licensee must give reasonable notice of the consultation to those designated airport users in writing, specifying —
the purpose of the consultation;
the period within which comments by those designated airport users may be given to the airport licensee, being a period that is at least 6 weeks (or such period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case);
the matters the airport licensee would like the comments to address; and
that if such a designated airport user does make such comments, the designated airport user must also deliver a copy of those comments to the Authority at the same time.
Subregulation 3
The airport licensee must take into consideration all comments submitted in relation to its draft proposal in accordance with the notice of consultation in paragraph (2).
Subregulation 4
The airport licensee for an airport shall, within a period of 2 weeks (or such longer period as the Chief Executive may allow in any particular case) after submitting to the Authority in accordance with rule 22(1) its proposal regarding aeronautical charges for the aeronautical services and facilities to be provided by the airport licensee in a regulatory period in relation to the airport —
prepare a written response responding in appropriate detail to the comments of the designated airport users made in relation to its draft proposal; and
serve the written response on the designated airport users.