Civil Aviation Act 1978

10 (1) The 1968 Act shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 1 (control of road traffic at Secretary of State's aerodromes and local authority aerodromes)—

(a) in subsection (3), for the words " require the person owning or managing the aerodrome in question" there shall be substituted the words " , in the case of an aerodrome owned or managed by a local authority, require that authority "; and

(b) in subsection (4), for the words from " aerodrome " onwards there shall be substituted the words " aerodrome owned or managed by a local authority, the Secretary of State shall consult that authority. ".

(3) In section 4(1) (byelaws at certain private aerodromes), before the words " the British Airports Authority " there shall be inserted the words " the Civil Aviation Authority, ".

(4) Section 6 (provision of facilities by local authorities at aerodromes not established or maintained by them) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in subsection (1), after the word " provides" there shall be inserted the words " and maintains ", and at the end there shall be added the words " , and the provisions of that section shall have effect accordingly. ";

(b) in subsection (2), for the words " provided by ", in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words " maintained by " and the words " provided and " shall be omitted ;

(c) in subsection (3), for the word " provided " there shall be substituted the word " maintained "; and

(d) in subsection (4), for the words " provided as " there shall be substituted the words " maintained as ".