Civil Aviation Act 1982

Staff U.K.

12 U.K. The CAA may appoint such officers and servants as it may determine; and any reference in this Act to an employee of the CAA is a reference to a person appointed in pursuance of this paragraph or employed by the CAA in pursuance of paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the M1 Civil Aviation Act 1971 (existing employees to whom CAA obliged to offer employment).

Marginal Citations

M1 1971 c. 75.

13 (1) The CAA shall, in the case of such of its employees as it may determine, pay such pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of them as it may determine, make such payments towards the provision of such pensions, allowances or gratuities as it may determine or provide and maintain such schemes (whether contributory or not) for the payment of such pensions, allowances or gratuities as it may determine. U.K.

(2) If an employee of the CAA becomes a member and was by reference to his employment by the CAA a participant in a pension scheme maintained by the CAA for the benefit of any of its employees, the CAA may determine that his service as a member shall be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the CAA; and the benefits payable to or in respect of a person by virtue of the preceding provisions of this sub-paragraph shall be in addition to the benefits, if any, which are payable to or in respect of him by virtue of paragraph 7 above.

14 U.K. It shall be the duty of the CAA, except so far as it is satisfied that adequate machinery exists for achieving the purpose of this paragraph, to seek consultation with any organisation appearing to the CAA to be appropriate with a view to the conclusion between the CAA and that organisation of such agreements as appear to the parties to be desirable with respect to the establishment and maintenance of machinery for—

(a) the settlement by negotiation of terms and conditions of employment of employees of the CAA, with provision for reference to arbitration in default of such a settlement in such cases as may be determined by or under the agreements; and

(b) the promotion and encouragement of measures affecting the safety, health and welfare of employees of the CAA and the discussion of other matters of mutual interest to the CAA and its employees, including efficiency in the performance of the CAA’s functions.