Article 1

This Order may be cited as the Civil Aviation Act 1949 (Overseas Territories) Order 1969.

This Order shall come into operation on 30th April 1969.

The Orders set out in Schedule 1 to this Order are revoked in so far as they form part of the law of the territories specified in Schedule 3 to this Order:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall affect the operation of section 13 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 as extended to the said territories by the Colonial Civil Aviation (Application of Act) Order 1952^f1, which section is, for the sake of convenience, reproduced in paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to this Order.

Nothing in paragraph (3) of this Article shall affect—

but any such Order or instrument or thing aforesaid shall, if and so far as in force immediately before the coming into force of this Order, continue in force (subject however, to any Order in Council or instrument or thing made or done after the coming into force of this Order) and so far as it could have been made or done under this Order shall have effect as if made or done under this Order.

In this Article “instrument” includes any order, regulation, direction, instruction, rule or other requirement, any notice and any certificate, licence, validation or other authority.

Any document referring to any enactment revoked by this Order shall be construed as referring to this Order or to the corresponding enactment in this Order.