Tolerance and Non-Discrimination: Combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination - As prepared for delivery by Ambassador Michael Kozak, Head of Delegation
After section 74 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (supplementary provision about charges for air navigation services), there shall be inserted the following section:—
Schedule 4 to the Civil Aviation Act 1982 (which makes provision in relation to the organisation known as Eurocontrol) shall be amended as follows.
In paragraph 1(3) (which includes provision according Eurocontrol the same inviolability of archives and premises as an envoy of a foreign sovereign Power accredited to Her Majesty), for the words from “any rule” to “Her Majesty” there shall be substituted the words “ the inviolability which, in accordance with the 1961 Convention Articles, is accorded in respect of the official archives and premises of a diplomatic mission ”.
In paragraph 1(4) (which allows constables and other specified persons in certain cases to have access to the premises of Eurocontrol and to inspect its documents) after the word “document” there shall be inserted the words “ where the DirectorGeneral of the Agency is given advance notice of the exercise of the power conferred by this subparagraph and the access or inspection is ”.
After paragraph 1(4) there shall be inserted the following subparagraphs:—.
“the 1961 Convention Articles” means the Articles (being certain Articles of the Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed in 1961) which are set out in Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964;
In subparagraph (1) of paragraph 3 (which confers jurisdiction on United Kingdom courts in respect of claims against Eurocontrol), after the words “Subject to” there shall be inserted the words “ paragraph 1 above and ”.
In section 24 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982, in the definition of “the Eurocontrol Convention”, for the words from “and includes any amendment” onwards there shall be substituted the words “ as from time to time amended with the agreement of the contracting parties thereto ”.
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This Act may be cited as the Civil Aviation (Eurocontrol) Act 1983.
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different days may be so appointed for different provisions or for different purposes of the same provision.
The power conferred by section 108(1) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 to extend provisions of that Act to a place outside the United Kingdom includes, in the case of a provision amended by this Act, power so to extend that provision with the amendments made by this Act and includes power so to extend the section inserted in that Act by section 1 above.
This Act extends to Northern Ireland.