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Accounts of the Fund.

Power to wind up the Fund.

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manner and over such period and with interest thereon at such rate as the Treasury may determine ;, and any sums received by the Treasury under this subsection shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(9) An order shall not be made under this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before the House of Commons and approved by a resolution of that House.

(10) References in this section to the borrowing of any sum under subsection (1) above, the giving of a guarantee under subsection (4) above, or the issuing of any sum out of the Consolidated Fund under subsection (6) above shall, in relation to any time before the commencement of this Act, include references to the borrowing of any sum, the giving of a guaran- tee or the issuing of any sum out of that Fund under subsection (1), (4) or, as the case may be, (6) of section 3 of the Civil Aviation Act 1978.

35. The Secretary of State shall prepare accounts of the Avia- tion Security Fund in such form as the Treasury may direct and shall send them to the Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of the month of November following the end of the financial year to which the accounts relate; and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine and certify every such account and shall lay copies thereof, together with bis report thereon, before Parliament.

36. (1) The Secretary of State may at any time by order provide for the winding up of the Aviation Security Fund and, on the completion of the winding up, for the return to each manager of an aerodrome by whom contributions have been made to the Fund of a share of the net assets standing to the credit of the Fund which bears the same proportion to those assets as the manager's contributions to the Fund in the last twelve months during which contributions were made to the Fund bear to the total contributions made by managers of aerodromes to the Fund during those twelve months.

(2) On such day as is declared by the Secretary of State by order to be that on which the winding up was completed sections 32(1), (5), (6) and (7) and 33 of this Act shall cease to have effect, and as from that day subsections (2) and (4) of section 32 of this Act shall have effect as if-~~

(a) all payments under those subsections fell to be defrayed out of money provided by Parliament, instead of out of the Aviation Security Fund; and

(b) the consent of the Treasury were required for all such

payments.

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(3) The power to make an order under this section-

(a) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument; and (b) shall include power to make such incidental, supple- mental or transitional provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit;

and a statutory instrument containing an order under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

PART V

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

PART IV

37.—(1) Where an offence under this Act or under regulations Offences by made under section 33 of this Act has been committed by a bodies body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the corporate. consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purport- Ing to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be procceded against and punished accordingly.

(2) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.

38.—(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise Interpretation requires--

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act of violence " shall be construed in accordance with section 2(7) or, as the case may require, section 10(2) of this Act:

etc.

'aerodrome means the aggregate of the land, buildings and works comprised in an aerodrome within the meaning of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and (if and 1982 c. 16. so far as not comprised in an aerodrome as defined in that Act) any land, building or works situated within the boundaries of an area designated, by an order made by the Secretary of State which is for the time being in force, as constituting the area of an acro- drome for the purposes of this Act;

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air navigation installation means any building, works, apparatus or equipment used wholly or mainly for the purpose of assisting air traffic control or as an aid to air navigation, together with any land contiguous

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