Civil Aviation Act 1982

2 (1) Any agreement and any provision in a document which is not an agreement shall, so far as may be necessary for or in consequence of the transfers effected by the said Schedule 2, continue to have effect as if references to, or to an officer of, the Crown or a government department were, or as the case may be included, references to or to an employee of the CAA. U.K.

(2) Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (1) above, any agreement to which the Crown or a government department was a party, whether in writing or not and whether or not of such a nature that rights and liabilities under it could be assigned, shall continue to have effect, so far as may be necessary for or in consequence of the transfers effected by that Schedule, as if the CAA had been a party to the agreement.

(3) Without prejudice to sub-paragraph (1) above, where by the operation of that Schedule any right or liability has become a right or liability of the CAA, the CAA and all other persons shall have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular the same rights, powers and remedies as to taking or resisting legal proceedings or the making or resisting of applications to any authority) for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing the right or liability as they would have had if it had at all times been a right or liability of the CAA.