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(1) If an aircraft is used on any flight in contravention of subsection (2) of section one of this Act, the operator of the aircraft, and if any other person, whether by negotiating a contract or otherwise howsoever, made available facilities for travel or the consignment of goods on that flight knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that the flight would be in contravention of the said subsection (2), that other person also, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable—
1. (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such a fine and such imprisonment;
1. (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of such amount as the court may think fit, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such a fine and such imprisonment.

(2) For the purpose of securing compliance with the requirements of section one of this Act, the Minister or anyone acting under his authority may require any person who, in the United Kingdom, whether by providing an aircraft or negotiating a contract or otherwise howsoever, makes available, or offers, facilities for travel or the consignment of goods upon any journey by air, and any servant or agent of any such person, and any person who is the holder of an aerodrome licence, to provide the Minister with all such information or documents in his possession or control relating to the journey or proposed journey as may be specified in the requirement; and any person who wilfully fails to comply with any requirement under this subsection shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(3) If the holder of any air service licence or air operator's certificate fails without reasonable cause to comply with any requirement of any regulations with respect to the provision of information made by virtue of paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section five of this Act, he shall in respect of each such failure be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

(4) If any person, in furnishing any information under this Act, furnishes any information which to his knowledge is false in any material particular or recklessly furnishes any information which is false in any material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable—
1. (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both such a fine and such imprisonment;
1. (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such a fine and such imprisonment.

(5) If any person fails without reasonable cause to comply with any requirement duly made of him under this Act to surrender an air service licence for cancellation or variation, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(6) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of that offence and be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

In this subsection, the expression “director”, in relation to a body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.

(7) Any offence under this section shall, for the purpose of conferring jurisdiction, be deemed to have been committed in any place where the offender may for the time being.