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Amendment of Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950.
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8.—The Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950, is hereby amended by—
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(a) the substitution in section 19 (3) for “five pounds” of “two hundred and fifty pounds”, and
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(b) the substitution in section 21 for “twenty pounds” of “one thousand pounds”,
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and the said sections, as so amended, are set out in the Table to this section.
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TABLE
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(3) If any person—
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(a) on being required by an authorised officer acting under this section to give his name and address, refuses to give his name or address or gives a false or fictitious name or address, or
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(b) on being required by an authorised officer acting under this section to leave a State aerodrome, refuses or fails to leave it, or
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(c) having left a State aerodrome in pursuance of the requirement of an authorised officer acting under this section or having been removed from a State aerodrome under this section, returns thereto on the same day,
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that person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds.
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21.—If any person—
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(a) obstructs or impedes an authorised officer in the lawful execution of his powers and duties as an authorised officer under section 19 or 20 of this Act, or
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(b) assaults an authorised officer in the lawful execution of those powers and duties,
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that person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
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