Parliament of the United Kingdom

“ The Secretary of State may at any time by order provide for the winding up of the Aviation Security Fund and, on the completion of the winding up, for the return to each manager of an aerodrome by whom contributions have been made to the Fund of a share of the net assets standing to the credit of the Fund which bears the same proportion to those assets as the manager’s contributions to the Fund in the last twelve months during which contributions were made to the Fund bear to the total contributions made by managers of aerodromes to the Fund during those twelve months. ”

“ In any cargo area in an aerodrome which is a designated airport the powers of a constable under subsection (1) (b) above—
(a) extend to any vehicle whether or not it is carrying an airport employee; and (b) include power, not only to board and search an aircraft, but also to stop and detain it. (5) In this section “airport employee”, in relation to any aerodrome, means any person in the employment of the manager of the aerodrome and any person employed otherwise than by the manager to work on the aerodrome. ”

“ 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. ”

“ A person on board an aircraft in flight who unlawfully, by the use of force or by threats of any kind, seizes the aircraft or exercises control of it commits the offence of hijacking, whatever his nationality, whatever the State in which the aircraft is registered and whether the aircraft is in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, but subject to subsection (2) below. ”

“ In this part of this Act “act of violence” means any act (whether actual or potential, and whether done or to be done in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) which either—
(a) being an act done in Great Britain, constitutes, or (b) if done in Great Britain would constitute, the offence of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide or assault, or an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 or 29 of the 1861 c. 100. ”

“ Any member of an aerodrome constabulary transferred by virtue of an order under this section to the police force for the relevant police area shall be deemed to have been duly appointed as a member of that force and to have been duly attested as such and, unless the order otherwise provides, shall hold in that force the same rank as he held in the aerodrome constabulary. ”

“ This section applies to any direction given under section 14 of this Act which—
(a) requires a person to take measures consisting of or including the construction, execution, alteration, demolition or removal of a building or other works ”