Air Navigation Order
BizJetJock & Spitoon,
Thank you both for replying. Please forgive me for the delay in coming back: I have been away for a week or so.
BizJetJock's reply, while providing information about how the ANO is managed, does not explain why this piece of primary legislation has been an Order in the first place and not an Act.
Spitoon's reply points out that there is an Air Navigation Act that establishes the powers of the CAA, but this too does not answer the question.
I do know about statutory instruments (as I have enforced a good many of them in my time). But all the statutory instruments I have been involved with have all been Regulations made under a piece of primary legislation which has always been an Act, never an Order.
(Incidentally, the only sado around here is ME)!
So why was the ANO framed as an Order and not as an Act?
Anybody?
Broomstick.