Commentary on provisions of the Act Exercise of regulatory functions by bodies other than Secretary of State Section 16: Power of Secretary of State to appoint person to exercise functions
Subsection (1) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations appointing the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) or other persons ("appointed persons") to carry out functions of the regulator under this Act. Subsection (2) sets out various other matters that may be specified in regulations pertaining to such an appointment and subsection (3) enables more than one person to be appointed.
	Subsection (4) modifies sections 2 and 15 of the Act.
	Subsection (5) confers a power on the Secretary of State to give directions to an appointed person in the interests of national security or otherwise in the national interest.
	Subsection (6) states that CAA’s general objectives as stated in section 4 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 ("the 1982 Act") in relation to air transport services, do not apply to functions it is appointed to do under this Act.
	Subsection (7) clarifies that other (including common law) powers to arrange for others to exercise functions on the Secretary of State’s behalf, are not displaced.