(1) Before making any regulations under section 71A above, the Secretary of State must consult the CAA and the trustees of the Air Travel Trust.
(2) Before responding to the consultation, the CAA must consult the following persons so far as it considers it reasonably practicable to do so—
(a) persons who hold licences by virtue of section 71 above, and
(b) any other person or body appearing to it to have an interest in the matter.”
(1) The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a copy of every report that he receives from the trustees of the Air Travel Trust by virtue of the terms of the trust deed.
(2) No court may, by virtue of any enactment whenever passed or made, vary the terms of the deed establishing the Air Travel Trust unless the variation is sought by, or with the consent of, the Secretary of State.
(3) In this section the “Air Travel Trust” means the trust established by that name by a deed dated 5th January 2004 and made between the Secretary of State for Transport and the persons described as the Original Trustees.
(1) In Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to Scottish Ministers) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1750), in the entry relating to the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16), for “38(2), 42(1), 50(2), 78,” substitute “38(4) and (5), 38B(2)(a) and (5), 42(1), 50(2), 78, 78B(1), (2) and (4),”.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the power to make further Orders varying or omitting those references.
Schedule 2 contains consequential amendments.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Civil Aviation Act 2006.
(2) Section 6, this section and Schedule 1 come into force on the day on which this Act is passed.
(3) Otherwise, this Act comes into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.
(4) Different days may be appointed for different purposes or different areas.
(5) An order under subsection (3) may make—
(a) such supplementary, incidental or consequential provision, or
(b) such transitory, transitional or saving provision,
as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with the coming into force of any provision of this Act.
(6) Subject to subsections (7) and (8), this Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(7) Section 4, and paragraphs 2 and 5 of Schedule 2, extend to England and Wales and Scotland.
(8) Section 5 extends to England and Wales only.
(9) The power conferred by section 108(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 to extend provisions of that Act to a place outside the United Kingdom includes power so to extend any provision of that Act (other than section 88) as amended or inserted by this Act.