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1982 c. 16.
1980 c. 43.
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or adjacent to any such building, works, apparatus or equipment and used wholly or mainly for purposes connected therewith;
"aircraft registered or operating in the United Kingdom
means any aircraft which is either-
or
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(a) an aircraft registered in the United Kingdom,
(b) an aircraft not so registered which is for the time being allocated for use on flights which (other- wise than in exceptional circumstances) include landing at or taking off from one or more aerodromes in the United Kingdom ;
article" includes any substance, whether in solid or
liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour; 'constable" includes any person having the powers and
privileges of a constable;
"explosive" means any article manufactured for the pur-
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pose of producing a practical effect by explosion, or intended for that purpose by a person having the article with him;
firearm" includes an airgun or air pistol;
manager", in relation to an aerodrome, means the person (whether the British Airports Authority, the Civil Avia-
tion Authority, a local authority or any other person)
by whom the aerodrome is managed ;
* military service " includes naval and air force service ;
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measures (without prejudice to the generality of that expression) includes the construction, execution, altera- tion, demolition or removal of buildings or other works and also includes the institution or modification, and the supervision and enforcement, of any practice or procedure;
operator" has the same meaning as in the Civil Aviation
Act 1982;
"property" includes any land, buildings or works, any aircraft or vehicle and any baggage, cargo or other article of any description ;
the statutory maximum
means-
(a) in England and Wales, the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 32 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (that is to say, £1.000 or another sum fixed by order under section 143 of that Act to take account of changes in the value of money);
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(b) in Scotland, the prescribed sum within the meaning of section 289B of the Criminal Procedure 1975 c. 21. (Scotland) Act 1975 (that is to say, £1,000 or another sum fixed by order under section 289D of that Act for that purpose);
(c) in Northern Ireland, £400;
'United Kingdom national" means an individual who is
(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Terri- tories citizen or a British Overseas citizen:
(b) a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 c. 61. 1981 is a British subject; or
(c) a British protected person (within the meaning of that Act).
(2) For the purposes of this Act-
(a) in the case of an air navigation installation provided by, or used wholly or mainly by, the Civil Aviation Authority, that Authority, and
(b) in the case of any other air navigation installation, the manager of an aerodrome by whom it is provided, or by whom it is wholly or mainly used, shall be taken to be the authority responsible for that air naviga- tion installation.
(3) For the purposes of this Act--
(a) the period during which an aircraft is in flight shall be deemed to include any period from the moment when all its external doors are closed following embarkation until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation, and, in the case of a forced landing. any period until the competent authorities take over responsibility for the aircraft and for persons and pro- perty on board; and
(b) an aircraft shall be taken to be in service during the whole of the period which begins with the pre-flight preparation of the aircraft for a flight and ends 24 hours after the aircraft lands having completed that flight, and also at any time (not falling within that period) while, in accordance with the preceding para- graph, the aircraft is in flight,
and anything done on board an aircraft while in flight over any part of the United Kingdom shall be treated as done in that part of the United Kingdom.
(4) For the purposes of this Act the territorial waters adjacent to any part of the United Kingdom shall be treated as included in that part of the United Kingdom.