(1)The Secretary of State may give directions to the CAA imposing duties or conferring powers (or both) on it with regard to air navigation in a managed area.
(2)No action is to lie in respect of a failure by the CAA to perform a duty imposed on it by a direction under subsection (1); but that does not affect a right of action in respect of an act or omission which takes place in the course of performing the CAA’s air navigation functions.
[F1(3)The chief executive of the CAA must, with the approval of the chair and at least one other non-executive member of the CAA, nominate another executive member of the CAA for the purposes of this section.]
[F1(3A)A person nominated under subsection (3) must perform on the CAA's behalf such of its air navigation functions as the Secretary of State may specify.]
[F1(3B)The chief executive must consult the Secretary of State before nominating a person under subsection (3).]
(4)The following provisions are not to apply to the CAA’s air navigation functions—
(a)section 7(1) of the M1Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Secretary of State’s power to prescribe functions not to be performed by a person on CAA’s behalf);
(b)paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to that Act (CAA’s power to authorise a person to perform functions on its behalf).
(5)A person nominated under subsection (3) may authorise a member or employee of the CAA to perform on his behalf the functions which he is to perform by virtue of that subsection.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 66(3)-(3B) substituted for s. 66(3) (19.2.2013) by Civil Aviation Act 2012 (c. 19), ss. 98(1), 110(3)(c) (with Sch. 10 paras. 12, 17, Sch. 14 para. 8)
Commencement Information
I1S. 66 wholly in force at 1.2.2001, see s. 275(1)(2) and S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I (subject to the transitional provision and saving in Sch. 2 Pt. II)
Marginal Citations