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Emergency Air Traffic Control Act 2014

2014 CHAPTER 31
BILL 9

An Act to improve conditions for air traffic control workers; to nationalise National
Air Traffic Services; and to introduce emergency measures for air traffic controller
strikes.
[20th September 2014]

B E IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Nationalisation of NATS
(1) All shares of NATS Holdings Limited, company number 04138218, not currently
held by the Department for Transport are to be transferred to the Department; and
the Secretary of State must pay to each former shareholder of NATS Holdings
Limited, out of money provided by Parliament, the sum of 141 per share that was
transferred under this section.
(2) The Department must offer to each air traffic controller employed by NATS
Holdings Limited a transitional arrangement where
(a) no fully-qualified employee is to be required to work more than 32 hours per
week;
(b) paid sick leave is to be increased by 2 percent;
(c) maternal and parent leave is to be increased by 5 percent.
(3) The Department must increase by 35 percent the wage of each NATS Holdings
Limited employee who is paid less than 100,000.

2 Emergency measures
During an air traffic controller strike
(a) Her Majesty's navy is to mobilise ships to aid the transport of British
Nationals home;
(b) air traffic controllers from Her Majesty's Air Force are to operate the air traffic
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control at London Heathrow airport;

(c) where possible, the merchant navy is to be used to transport goods;
(d) the Secretary of State is to provide such funding as he considers appropriate
to Socit nationale des chemins de fer franais (SNCF) for the purposes of
funding the operation of further trains between the Paris and Channel ports.

3 Extent, commencement and short title

(1) This Act extends to the whole of the United Kingdom.
(2) This Act comes into force immediately after it is passed.
(3) This Act may be cited as the Emergency Air Traffic Control Act 2014.