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PART III

Reimburse-

ment of expenses incurred for purposes to which Part It applies.

Annual report

State as to

notices and

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(3) If any land other than the land on which the measures are taken is injuriously affected by the taking of those measures, any person having an interest in that other land, who suffers loss in consequence of its being injuriously affected, shall be entitled to compensation equal to the amount of the loss.

(4) Any compensation to which a person is entitled under this section shall be payable to him by the person (whether being a manager of an aerodrome or the authority responsible for an air navigation installation) by whom the measures in question were taken.

(5) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section; and the preceding provisions of this section shall have effect subject to the provisions of that Schedule.

23.-(1) The Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, reimburse to any person who is--

(a) the operator of one or more aircraft registered or operat

ing in the United Kingdom, or

(b) the manager of an aerodrome in the United Kingdom,

or

(c) the authority responsible for an air navigation instal-

lation in the United Kingdom,

the whole or part of any expenses which, for purposes to which Part II of this Act applies, have at any time on or after 1st June 1972 been, or inay at any time after the commencement of this Act be, incurred by that person in relation to those aircraft or to that aerodrome or air navigation installation, as the case may be, whether (in the case of expenses incurred after the commence. ment of this Act) the expenses are incurred in consequence of a direction given under Part II of this Act or not.

(2) For the purposes of this section any expenses incurred in paying compensation under section 22 of this Act shall be treated as being expenses incurred as mentioned in the preceding subsection.

24. (1) The Secretary of State shall, on or before 31st by Secretary of January in each year, lay before each House of Parliament a report stating the number of notices served by him under section 8 and the number of directions given by him under sections 9, under Part II, 10 and 11 of this Act during the period of twelve months which

expired with the preceding December.

directions

(2) Each such report shall deal separately with notices served under section 8, directions given under section 9, directions given under section 10 and directions given under section 11 of this

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Act, and, in relation to each of those matters, shall show separately-

(a) the number of notices or directions which, during the period to which the report relates, were served on or given to persons as being, or as appearing to the Secretary of State to be about to become, operators of aircraft;

(b) the number of notices or direction's which during that period were served on or given to persons as being, or as appearing to the Secretary of State to be about to become, managers of aerodromes; and

(c) the number of notices or directions which during that period were served on or given to persons as being, or as appearing to the Secretary of State to be about to become, authorities responsible for air navigation installations.

(3) In this section any reference to section 8, section 10 or section 11 of this Act shall be construed as including a reference

to that section as applied or modified by section 18 of this Act.

PART III

25. Any notice, direction or other document required or Service of authorised by any provision of this Act to be served on or given documents. to any person may be served or given—

(a) by delivering it to him, or

(b) by sending it to him by post at his usual or last-known residence or place of business, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, or

(c) in the case of a body corporate, by delivering it to the secretary, clerk or similar officer of the body corporate at its registered or principal office in the United King- dom (or, if it has no office in the United Kingdom, at its principal office, wherever it may be) or sending it by post to the secretary, clerk or similar officer of that body corporate at that office.

26.—(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise Interpretation. requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby

* assigned to them, that is to say—

aerodrome

"

means the aggregate of the land, buildings

and works comprised in an aerodrome as defined by

section 28(3) of the Civil Aviation Act 1968 and (if 1968 c. 61. and so far as not comprised in an aerodrome as so defined) 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 aerodrome for the purposes of this Act;