Air Navigation and Transport (Indemnities) Act, 2001

Ministerial indemnities.

3.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and having consulted the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, may grant or renew an indemnity to an air navigation undertaking in respect of specified risks, which indemnity is in this Act referred to as a “Ministerial indemnity”.

(2) The Minister shall not grant or renew an indemnity pursuant to subsection (1) unless—

(a) there is in force an order referred to in section 2 ,

(b) the indemnity relates to risks specified in the order referred to in section 2 , and

(c) the Minister has been requested to grant such an indemnity on foot of an application made pursuant to section 11 by the air navigation undertaking concerned.