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CH. 61

Civil Aviation Act 1968

1949 c. 67.

1936 c. 49.

Detention and sale of aircraft for unpaid

airport

charges.

precluding that Parliament from making laws in respect aerodromes in Northern Ireland and, in relation to any such laws as aforesaid-

(a) the limitation imposed by paragraph (1) of that sub- section in respect of the Crown or the property of the Crown (including foreshore vested in the Crown);

and

(b) the limitation imposed by paragraph (7) of that sub- section in respect of trade with any place outside Northern Ireland or quarantine,

shall not apply.

(2) In the Civil Aviation Act 1949-

(a) sections 19 and 20 (local authority aerodromes) shall

cease to extend to Northern Ireland; and

(b) section 22 (aerodromes of other statutory bodies in Northern Ireland), in Schedule 9 (provisions which may be adapted for Northern Ireland) the words "Sections nineteen to twenty-two ", Schedule 10 (compulsory purchase of land in Northern Ireland) and paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 11 (application of section 143 of the Public Health Act 1936 to Board of Trade aerodromes in Northern Ireland) are hereby repealed;

but this subsection shall not have effect until such date as may be appointed by the Board of Trade by an order made by statutory instrument.

(3) The powers conferred by section 8 of the said Act of 1949 (regulation of air navigation) may be exercised so as to provide for the licensing of any aerodrome in Northern Ireland not- withstanding that it is owned or managed by any department of the government of Northern Ireland and so as to impose duties on any such department as licensee of any such aerodrome, including duties as to the charges which may be made for the use of, or for services provided at, any such aerodrome.

Charges at airports and for air navigation services

14.-(1) Where default is made in the payment of airport charges incurred in respect of any aircraft at an aerodrome to which this section applies, the aerodrome authority may, subject to the provisions of this section-

(a) detain, pending payment, either-

(i) the aircraft in respect of which the charges were incurred (whether or not they were incurred by the person who is the operator of the aircraft at the time when the detention begins); or