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Power to impose restrictions in relation to aircraft.

Protection of an

Act 1973

(3) Any such notice shall also require the person on whom it is served, after he has furnished to the Secretary of State the information required by the notice in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, to inform the Secretary of State if at any time- (a) any further measures, in respect of aircraft registered or operating in the United Kingdom of which at that time he is the operator, or in respect of the aerodrome to which the information so furnished related, as the case may be, are taken for purposes to which this Part of this Act applies, either by way of alteration of, or addition to, the measures specified in any information previously furnished by him under this section or by way of applying any measures so specified to aircraft, or to a part of the aerodrome, not comprised in the previous information, or

(b) any measures taken as mentioned in that subsection or

in paragraph (a) of this subsection are discontinued.

(4) In so far as such a notice requires further information to be furnished to the Secretary of State in accordance with sub- section (3) of this section, it shall require that information to be furnished to him before the end of such period (not being less than seven days from the date on which the further measures in question are taken or the measures are discontinued, as the case may be) as is specified in the notice for the purposes of this subsection.

(5) A notice served on a person under subsection (1) of this section may at any time be revoked by a further notice served on him by the Secretary of State.

9.-(1) For purposes to which this Part of this Act applies the Secretary of State may give a direction in writing to the operator of any one or more aircraft registered or operating in the United Kingdom, or to any person appearing to the Secretary of State to be about to become such an operator, requiring him—

(a) not to cause or permit persons or property to go or be taken on board the aircraft, or to come or be brought into proximity to the aircraft, unless such searches of those persons or that property as are specified in the direction have been carried out by constables or by other persons of a description specified in the direction,

or

(b) not to cause or permit the aircraft to fly unless such searches of the aircraft as are specified in the direction have been carried out by constables or by other persons of a description so specified.

(2) Subject to the next following subsection, the Secretary of State may give a direction in writing to the operator of any one

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or more aircraft registered in the United Kingdom, or to any person appearing to the Secretary of State to be about to become such an operator, requiring him not to cause or permit the aircraft to fly unless such modifications or alterations of the aircraft, or of apparatus or equipment installed in the aircraft, as are specified in the direction have first been carried out, or such additional apparatus or equipment as is so specified is first installed in the aircraft.

(3) Before giving any direction under subsection (2) of this section the Secretary of State shall inform the Civil Aviation Authority of the modifications, alterations or additional apparatus or equipment proposed to be required, and shall take account of any advice given to him by that Authority with respect to those proposals.

(4) In giving any direction under subsection (2) of this section the Secretary of State shall allow, and shall specify in the direction, such period as appears to him to be reasonably required for carrying out the modifications or alterations or installing the additional apparatus or equipment in question; and the direction shall not take effect before the end of the period so specified.

(5) Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, a direction given to an operator of aircraft under subsection (1) of this section may be given so as to relate-

(a) either to all the aircraft registered or operating in the

United Kingdom of which at the time when the direc tion is given or at any subsequent time he is the operator or only to one or more such aircraft, or to a class of such aircraft, specified in the direction;

(b) either to all persons or only to one or more persons, or persons of one or more descriptions, specified in the direction; and

(c) either to property of every description or only to parti- cular property, or property of one or more descriptions, specified in the direction;

and a direction given to an operator of aircraft under subsection (2) of this section may be given so as to relate either to all aircraft registered in the United Kingdom of which at the time when the direction is given or at any subsequent time he is the operator or only to one or more such aircraft, or to a class of such aircraft, specified in the direction.

(6) Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, any direction given under this section to an operator of aircraft not to cause or permit anything to be done shall be construed

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