30Supplementary orders
(1)The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient in connection with, or in consequence of, any aerodrome becoming or ceasing to be a designated airport.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above and to the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act, any order under this section may in particular—
(a)modify or suspend the operation of any local Act in so far as it makes provision in relation to the policing of the aerodrome;
(b)amend any aerodrome byelaws for the purpose of transferring to relevant constables any functions conferred thereby on members of an aerodrome constabulary, of extending the byelaws to the whole of the aerodrome or of including in them any such requirement as is mentioned in section 28(1) (b) of this Act;
(c)make provision for any such transfers of officers and staff as are mentioned in subsection (3) below;
(d)make provision in respect of the pension rights of officers and staff so transferred, whether by requiring the making of payments, by modifying or revoking, or transferring or extinguishing liabilities or obligations under, any pension scheme, by transferring or winding up any pension fund or otherwise;
(e)require the manager of the aerodrome to make payments by way of compensation to or in respect of persons who suffer any loss of office or employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to the aerodrome becoming a designated airport, being payments of such amount and on such terms and conditions as may be specified by or determined in accordance with the order ;
(f)exclude any part of the aerodrome from the right of entry conferred by section 26(1) (a) or 29 (2) (a) of this Act.
(3)The transfers for which provision may be made under this section are transfers, with the consent of the persons to be transferred, of—
(a)members of any aerodrome constabulary maintained by the manager of the aerodrome to the police force for the relevant police area ;
(b)persons employed by the British Airports Authority to discharge such functions as are mentioned in section 13(4) of the [1975 c. 78.] Airports Authority Act 1975 to employment as traffic wardens by the police authority for the relevant police area or, if that area is the metropolitan police district, by the commissioner of police of the metropolis;
(c)other persons employed by the manager of the aerodrome for police purposes to employment by the police authority for the relevant police area or, if that area is a county, to employment by the police authority or the county council or, if that area is the metropolitan police district, to employment as members of the metropolitan civil staffs.
(4)Any member of an aerodrome constabulary transferred by virtue of an order under this section to the police force for the relevant police area shall be deemed to have been duly appointed as a member of that force and to have been duly attested as such and, unless the order otherwise provides, shall hold in that force the same rank as he held in the aerodrome constabulary.
(5)Any amendment of aerodrome byelaws by an order under this section shall have effect as if duly made by the manager of the aerodrome and confirmed under the enactment authorising the manager of the aerodrome to make aerodrome byelaws.
(6)Before making an order under this section in relation to any aerodrome the Secretary of State shall consult the manager of the aerodrome and the police authority and chief officer of police for the relevant police area.
(7)The power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.