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PART III

The Aviation

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area in which the aerodrome is wholly or mainly situ ated and any constable under the direction and con- trol of the chief officer of police for that area.

(2) In the application of this Part of this Act to Scotland- (a) references to the police authority shall, where the rele- vant police area is a combined area, be construed as references to the joint police committee; and (b) for the words in paragraph (c) of section 30(3) of this Act from "if that area is a county to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted the words "by any local authority exercising functions for that area or any part of that area".

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(3) In the application of this Part of this Act to Northern Ireland-

(a) the references in section 25(1) of this Act and subsection (1) above to constables or any constable under the direction and control of the chief officer of police for the area there mentioned shall be construed as refer- ences to members or any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or the Royal Ulster Constabulary

Reserve;

(b) references in other provisions to a chief officer of police shall be construed as references to the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; and

(c) references in any provision to the police authority or police force for a police area shall be construed re- spectively as references to the Police Authority for Northern Ireland and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

PART IV

THE AVIATION SECURITY FUND

32.--(1) There shall continue to be, under the control and Security Fund. management of the Secretary of State, a fund called the Aviation Security Fund out of which payments shall be made in accord- ance with this section.

(2) The Secretary of State may, out of the Aviation Security Fund, reimburse to any person who is-

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

operating in the United Kingdom, or

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

or

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

tion in the United Kingdom,

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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 may at any time after the commencement of this Act be, incurred by that person in relation to those air- craft or to that aerodrome or air navigation installation, as the case may be, whether or not the expenses have been or are incurred in consequence of a direction given under Part II of this Act..

(3) 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 subsection (2) above.

(4) The Secretary of State may, out of the Aviation Security Fund, reimburse to the manager of an aerodrome such part as he may determine of-

(a) any payments made or other expenses incurred by the

manager under section 26(3) of this Act;

(b) any payments made by the manager by virtue of any

order under section 30 of this Act.

(5) If the Secretary of State certifies that any payment which, but for this subsection, would be paid out of the Aviation Security Fund under the preceding provisions of this section is of an exceptional nature, that payment may, with the consent of the Treasury, be paid out of money provided by Parliament instead of out of the Fund.

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(6) Any money in the Aviation Security Fund which appears to the Secretary of the State not to be immediately required for the purposes of the Fund may be deposited by him with the Bank of England or with a recognised bank or licensed institu- tion within the meaning of the Banking Act 1979, and any 1979 c. 37. interest received by the Secretary of State in respect of money so deposited shall be paid by him into the Fund.

(7) There shall be paid out of the Aviation Security Fund into the Consolidated Fund sums equal to the amount of any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State in the management and control of the first-mentioned Fund.

33.-(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations con- Contributions taining such provisions as he considers appropriate for requir- to the Fund. ing managers of aerodromes to pay him, in respect of all aerodromes or of aerodromes of a prescribed class, contribu- tions to the Aviation Security Fund calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this section.