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effect 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

(c) to so much of an aerodrome as does not consist of an

air navigation installation;

and accordingly a notice under section 8 or a direction under section 10 or section 11 of this Act may be served or given either in respect of the whole of the aerodrome, or in respect of the air navigation installation separately, or in respect of so much of the aerodrome as does not consist of an air navigation installation.

(4) For the purposes of the service of a notice or the giving of a direction under section 8, section 10 or section 11 of this Act as modified by subsection (3) of this section, where the notice is to be served or the direction given in respect of an air navigation installation separately, and for the purposes of the operation of section 13(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) A direction under section 11 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

(b) only to one or more such air navigation installations, or to a class of such air navigation installations, specified in the direction.

(6) In sections 14(1) and 15(1) of this Act any reference to a direction given under a provision therein mentioned shall be construed as including a reference to a direction given under that provision as applied or modified by the preceding provisions of this section.

(7) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2)(a) of section 17 of this Act, a person inspecting an air navigation installation under that section (or under that section as applied or modified by the preceding provisions of this section) shall not be em- powered thereby to test any apparatus or equipment which con- stitutes or forms part of the air navigation installation.

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19.--(1) Where a constable has reasonable cause to suspect Powers that a person about to embark on an aircraft in the United exercisable Kingdom, or a person on board such an aircraft, intends to on suspicion commit, in relation to the aircraft, an offence under Part I of

of intended offence. this Act or under the Hijacking Act 1971, the constable may 1971 c. 70. prohibit him from travelling on board the aircraft; and for the purpose of enforcing that prohibition the constable-

(a) may prevent him from embarking on the aircraft or, as the case may be, may remove him from the aircraft, and (b) may arrest him without warrant and detain him for so

long as may be necessary for that purpose.

(2) Without prejudice to the preceding subsection, where a direction given under section 10 of this Act to the manager of an aerodrome is for the time being in force, then if a constable, or any other person specified in the direction in accordance with that section, has reasonable cause to suspect that an article to which section 16 of this Act applies is in, or may be brought into, any part of the aerodrome, he may, by virtue of this sub- section and without a warrant, search any part of the aerodrome or any aircraft, vehicle, goods or other movable property of any description which, or any person who, is for the time being in any part of the aerodrome, and for that purpose-

(a) may enter any building or works in the aerodrome, or enter upon any land in the aerodrome, if need be by force, and

(b) may stop any such aircraft, vehicle, goods, property or person and detain it or him for so long as may be necessary for that purpose.

(3) Where a direction given under section 10 of this Act, as applied or modified by section 18 of this Act, 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), subsection (2) of this section 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 responsible 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, subsection (2) of this section shall have