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(b) include power, not only to board and search an aircraft,
but also to stop and detain it.
(5) In this section "airport employee", in relation to any acrodrome, means any person in the employment of the manager of the aerodrome and any person employed otherwise than by the manager to work on the aerodrome.
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(6) In this section
cargo area means, subject to subsection (7) below, any area which appears to the Secretary of State to be used wholly or mainly for the storage or handling of cargo in an aerodrome and is designated by an order made by him for the purposes of this section.
(7) Where an aerodrome owned or managed by the British Airports Authority becomes a designated airport at a time when an area in that aerodrome is designated for the purposes of section 12 of the Airports Authority Act 1975 (which makes provision corresponding to subsections (2) to (4) above) that area shall, unless the Secretary of State by order otherwise directs, be treated as a cargo area for the purposes of this section.
(8) Any power to make an order under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(9) The powers conferred by this section on a relevant con- stable are without prejudice to any powers exercisable by him apart from this section.
28.(1) So long as any aerodrome is a designated airport any power of the manager of the aerodrome to make aerodrome byelaws shall, if it would not otherwise do so
(a) extend to the making of byelaws in respect of the whole
of the aerodrome; and
(b) include power to make byelaws requiring any person, if so requested by a relevant constable, to leave the aerodrome or any particular part of it or to state his name and address and the purpose of his being on the aerodrome.
(2) A relevant constable may remove from any aerodrome which is a designated airport, or from any part of it--
(a) any person who, in contravention of any aerodrome byelaws, fails or refuses to leave the aerodrome or part after being requested by the constable to do so;
(b) any vehicle, animal or thing brought to or left within the aerodrome or part in contravention of any aero- drome byelaws and any vehicle, animal or thing likely to cause danger or obstruction.
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(3) A relevant constable may without warrant arrest a person within any aerodrome which is a designated airport-
(a) if he has reasonable cause to believe that the person has contravened any aerodrome byelaws and he does not know and cannot ascertain that person's name and address; or
(b) if that person, in contravention of any aerodrome bye- laws, fails or refuses to leave the acrodrome or any particular part of it after being requested by the constable to do so.
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29.—(1) So long as any aerodrome is a designated airport, the Control of functions of a chief officer of police under any provisions road traffic
at designated applying in relation to the aerodrome under section 13(1) to airports. (3) of the Airports Authority Act 1975 or section 37 of the 1975 c. 78. Civil Aviation Act 1982 (application to certain aerodromes of provisions relating to road traffic) shall, notwithstanding any order under those sections, be exercisable by that officer to the exclusion of the chief officer of any aerodrome constabulary; and for the purposes of any functions of a chief officer of police under those provisions any part of the aerodrome which is not within the relevant police area shall be treated as if it were.
(2) So long as any aerodrome is a designated airport-
(a) traffic wardens appointed by the police authority for the relevant police area (or, if that area is the metro- politan police district, by the commissioner of police of the metropolis) may exercise their functions on the aerodrome and shall be entitled, as against the manager of the aerodrome, to enter the aerodrome accordingly; (b) if the aerodrome is owned or managed by the British Airports Authority, no person employed by the Authority shall exercise in relation to the aerodrome any such functions as are mentioned in section 13(4) of the Airports Authority Act 1975 (appointment of traffic wardens by the Authority).
(3) The reference in subsection (1) above to section 13(1) to (3) of the Airports Authority Act 1975 includes a reference to section 13(2) of that Act as extended by section 14(2) thereof (functions as respects abandoned vehicles); and subsection (2)(a) above has effect whether or not the whole of the aero- drome is in the relevant police area.
orders.
30. (1) The Secretary of State may by order make such Supple- provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient in mentary connection with, or in consequence of, any aerodrome becoming or ceasing to be a designated airport.
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