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CH. 61

Civil Aviation Act 1968

Power of

Authority,

24. Without prejudice to their powers apart from this secti British Airports the British Airports Authority, the British European Airways Corporation and the British Overseas Airways Corporation shall each have power to provide for any person technical advice or assistance, including research services, as respects any matter in which the Authority or, as the case may be, the Corporation concerned have skill or experience.

B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. to provide technical

advice and assistance.

Minor amendments relating to British

Airports Authority, B.E.A. and B.O.A.C.

1965 c. 16.

1967 c. 33.

Repeal of inoperative

25. (1) Paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 1 25.—(1)

8(1) of Schedule 1 to the Airports Authority Act 1965 and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to the Air Corporations Act 1967 (which require the fixing of the common seal of the Authority and of B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. to be authenti- cated by the signatures of the chairman or a member of the body concerned and also by another person authorised to act for that purpose) shall be amended as follows:-

(a) in the said paragraph 8(1) for the words from "the signatures" to the end there shall be substituted the words "the signature of the secretary of the Authority or some other person authorised by the Authority, either generally or specially, to act for that purpose (b) in the said paragraph 11 for the words from "the signa- ture" to the end there shall be substituted the words "the signature of the secretary of the corporation or some other person authorised by the corporation, either generally or specially, to act for that purpose ";

(2) It is hereby declared that-

(a) in the said Act of 1965" pension", in relation to a person, means a pension, whether contributory or not, of any kind whatsoever payable to or in respect of him, and includes a gratuity so payable and a return of contributions to a pension fund, with or without interest thereon or any other addition thereto, and any sums payable on or in respect of the death of that person; and

(b) for the purpose of making any provision required or authorised to be made by regulations under section 24 of the said Act of 1967 (pensions and similar benefits for employees of B.E.A., B.O.A.C. and certain other undertakings and bodies) regulations under that section may incorporate and give effect to provisions contained in any trust deed entered into by any employing authority within the meaning of that section.

26. The following provisions of the Civil Aviation Act 1949

provisions relating are hereby repealed, namely—

to damage caused

by aircraft.

1949 c. 67.

(a) section 42 and Schedule 5 (limit of liability for loss or

damage caused by aircraft);