Civil Aviation Act 1978

11 (1) The 1971 Act shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 4(3) (power of Secretary of State to give Civil Aviation Authority specific directions) for the words " subsections (1) and (2) " there shall be substituted the words " subsection (1) ".

(3) In section 9(5) the words from " and any charge " onwards (being unnecessary words relating to the enforcement of charges payable to the Civil Aviation Authority) shall be omitted.

(4) In section 29—

(a) after subsection (8) (powers of Secretary of State when a person fails to perform certain duties in relation to noise control, etc.) there shall be inserted the following subsection :—

“(8A) Subsection (8)(b) above is without prejudice to the Secretary of State's power apart from that paragraph to recover the expenses mentioned therein.”;

(b) in subsection (9), for the words " the preceding subsection " there shall be substituted the words " subsection (8) above ".

(5) In section 32(3) (health control at Civil Aviation Authority's aerodromes in Northern Ireland), the words from "but nothing" onwards shall be omitted.