Civil Aviation Act 1971

12 (1) The Authority may appoint such officers and servants as it may determine with the consent of the Secretary of State as to numbers and remuneration; and any reference in this Act to an employee of the Authority is a reference to a person appointed in pursuance of this sub-paragraph or employed by the Authority in pursuance of paragraph 14 of this Schedule.

(2) If before such date as the Secretary of State may determine for the purposes of this sub-paragraph the Authority makes a contract with any person for his employment by the Authority, the contract shall be of no effect unless its terms have been approved by the Secretary of State; and before the Secretary of State approves in pursuance of this sub-paragraph the terms of a contract to be offered to a person employed in employment to which paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 to this Act applies it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to satisfy himself that those terms, taken as a whole, are not less favourable to that person than the terms on which he is employed as aforesaid on the date when the offer is made.

(3) Different numbers, remuneration and dates may be determined in pursuance of this paragraph in relation to employees or proposed employees of different categories.

(4) The Secretary of State shall not give his consent in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph except with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.