Air Navigation and Transport (Preinspection) Act, 1986

Amendment of Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950.

8.—The Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950, is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution in section 19 (3) for “five pounds” of “two hundred and fifty pounds”, and

(b) the substitution in section 21 for “twenty pounds” of “one thousand pounds”,

and the said sections, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this section.

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(3) If any person—

(a) on being required by an authorised officer acting under this section to give his name and address, refuses to give his name or address or gives a false or fictitious name or address, or

(b) on being required by an authorised officer acting under this section to leave a State aerodrome, refuses or fails to leave it, or

(c) having left a State aerodrome in pursuance of the requirement of an authorised officer acting under this section or having been removed from a State aerodrome under this section, returns thereto on the same day,

that person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds.

21.—If any person—

(a) obstructs or impedes an authorised officer in the lawful execution of his powers and duties as an authorised officer under section 19 or 20 of this Act, or

(b) assaults an authorised officer in the lawful execution of those powers and duties,

that person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.