Civil Aviation Act 1968
CH. 61
ELIZABETH II
MON
DIELI
DROTT
1968 CHAPTER 61
An Act to amend the law relating to aerodromes, aircraft and civil aviation; to enable the Board of Trade to give financial assistance in respect of certain aerodromes; and to extend the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in relation to aerodromes in Northern Ireland. [25th October 1968]
B
E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
Aerodromes
at Board of
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the road Control of traffic enactments shall apply in relation to roads which are road traffic within a designated aerodrome but to which the public does not Trade and local have access as they apply in relation to roads to which the public has access.
(2) The Minister of Transport may by order direct that in their application to roads within such an aerodrome the road traffic enactments shall have effect subject to such exceptions, adaptations or modifications as appear to him necessary or expedient for the purpose or in consequence of conferring-
(a) on the person owning or managing the aerodrome functions exercisable under those enactments by a highway authority or local authority; and
(b) on the chief officer of any aerodrome constabulary functions so exercisable by a chief officer of police.
(3) An order under this section may exempt from the applica- tion of the road traffic enactments particular roads or lengths
authority aerodromes.