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(b) for the purpose of inspecting any part of an aerodrome, to enter any building or works in the aerodrome or enter upon any land in the aerodrome.
(4) The powers conferred by subsection (3) above shall not include power for an authorised person to use force for the purpose of entering any aircraft, building or works or entering upon any land.
(5) Any person who-
(a) wilfully obstructs or impedes a person acting in the exercise of a power conferred on him by or under this section, or
(b) refuses or, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under subsection (2)(b) above, or
(c) in furnishing any information so required, makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable-
(i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum ;
(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
Air navigation installations
21.--(1) Sections 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 20 of this Act shall have effect in relation to air navigation installations in the United Kingdom in accordance with the following provisions of this section.
(2) In relation to any such air navigation installation which does not form part of an aerodrome, those sections shall have effect, subject to subsection (5) below, as if in them any reference to an aerodrome were a reference to such an air navigation installation and any reference to the manager of an aerodrome were a reference to the authority responsible for such an air navigation installation.
(3) Where an air navigation installation forms part of an aerodrome in the United Kingdom, those sections shall have effect, subject to subsection (5) below, as if in them any reference to an aerodrome were a reference either-
(a) to an aerodrome, or
(b) to an air navigation installation which forms part of an
aerodrome, or
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(c) to so much of an aerodrome as does not consist of an
air navigation installation ;
and accordingly a notice under section 11 of this Act or a direction under section 13 or 14 of this Act may be served or given either in respect of the whole of the aerodrome, or in re- spect of the air navigation installation separately, or in respect of so much of the aerodrome as does not consist of an air navi. gation installation.
(4) For the purposes-
(a) of the service of a notice or the giving of a direction under section 11, 13 or 14 of this Act as modified by subsection (3) above, where the notice is to be served or the direction given in respect of an air navigation installation separately, and
(b) of the operation of section 16 (6) of this Act in relation
to a direction so given,
any reference in any of those sections to the manager of the aerodrome shall be construed as a reference to any person who is either the manager of the aerodrome or the authority responsible for the air navigation installation.
(5) Subsections (2) and (3) above shall not apply to section 13(3) of this Act; but where a direction given under section 13 of this Act, as applied or modified by the preceding provisions of this section, is for the time being in force-
(a) if it is a direction given in respect of an air navigation installation separately (whether that installation forms part of an aerodrome or not), the said section 13 (3) shall have effect in relation to that direction as if the air navigation installation were an aerodrome and, where the direction was given to the authority respon sible for the air navigation installation, as if it had been given to the manager of that aerodrome;
(b) if it is a direction given in respect of so much of an aerodrome as does not consist of an air navigation installation, the said section 13 (3) shall have effect in relation to that direction as if any air navigation installation comprised in the aerodrome did not form part of the aerodrome.
(6) A direction under section 14 of this Act, as applied or 'modified by the preceding provisions of this section, may be given to the authority responsible for one or more air navigation installations so as to relate either-
(a) to all air navigation installations in the United Kingdom for which it is responsible at the time when the direc tion is given or at any subsequent time, or
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