Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Act, 1963

Keeping of records by aircraft operators.

10.—(1) The Minister may by regulations under this section—

(a) require the owners or hirers of aircraft to keep records of the movements of the aircraft in such form and containing such particulars as may be specified in the regulations,

(b) provide for production to and inspection by officers of the Minister of records kept pursuant to the regulations,

(c) provide that records of the movements of aircraft kept by such persons as may be designated in the regulations shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence in proceedings in relation to an offence under section 8 of this Act or under the Air Navigation and Transport Acts, 1936 to 1961, of the matters entered, pursuant to the regulations, in the records, and that documents purporting to be records of the movements of aircraft and to be kept by persons designated for the purpose in the regulations shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be such records and to be so kept.

(2) Regulations under this section may be made applicable to any aircraft in or over the State or to aircraft registered in the State wherever they may be.

(3) A person who contravenes a regulation under this section shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or, at the discretion of the court, to both the fine and the imprisonment.

(4) A person who obstructs or interferes with an officer of the Minister when he is exercising a power conferred by regulations under this section shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(5) In this section “record” includes, in addition to a record in writing—

(a) any disc, tape, sound-track or other device in which sounds or signals are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced therefrom,

(b) any film, tape or other device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other instrument) of being reproduced therefrom, and

(c) any photograph,

and any reference to a copy of a record includes, in the case of a record falling within paragraph (a) only of this definition, a transcript of the sounds or signals embodied therein, in the case of a record falling within paragraph (b) only of this definition, a still reproduction of the images embodied therein, and in the case of a record falling within both those paragraphs, such a transcript together with such a still reproduction.