Part III
- 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.
Interpretation and application of Part III to Scotland and Northern Ireland. 31.—(1) In this Part of this Act, subject to the following provisions of this section—
- “aerodrome constabulary” means, in relation to any aerodrome, any body of constables which the manager of the aerodrome has power to maintain at the aerodrome;
- “aerodrome byelaws” means, in relation to any aerodrome, byelaws having effect under any enactment authorising the manager of the aerodrome to make byelaws in respect of the whole or any part of the aerodrome;
- “designated airport” means any aerodrome for the time being designated under section 25 of this Act;
- “members of the metropolitan civil staffs” means persons who are employed under the commissioner of police of the metropolis or the receiver for the metropolitan police district and are not constables and whose salaries are paid out of the metropolitan police fund;
- “relevant police area” and “relevant constable”, in relation to any aerodrome, mean respectively the police
