Abolition of the Airworthiness Requirements Board2
1
Paragraphs (2) to (5) below amend the Civil Aviation Act 19823 and paragraphs (6) and (7) below make savings.
2
Section 21(2)(c) (contents of the annual report of the Civil Aviation Authority) shall be repealed.
3
In section 23 (disclosure of information)—
a
subsection (4)(e) shall be repealed; and
b
in subsection (6) for “sections 84 and 85” there shall be substituted “section 84”.
4
Section 85 (design, construction and maintenance of aircraft) and Schedule 11 (provisions relating to Airworthiness Requirements Board) shall be repealed.
5
In Part 2 of Schedule 13 (provisions applying to certain powers) the entry relating to section 85(1)(c) of the Act shall be repealed.
6
The repeal of section 21(2)(c) of the Act by paragraph (2) above does not have effect in relation to accounting years of the Civil Aviation Authority commencing prior to 1st April 2004.
7
Despite the amendment of section 23(6) of the Act by paragraph (3)(b) above, information furnished in pursuance of section 85 of the Act before its repeal by paragraph (4) above shall be treated for the purposes of section 23(1) of the Act as information furnished in pursuance of a provision of the Act to which section 23 of the Act applies.