# Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021, Paragraph 5


(1) A constable may exercise the power conferred by this paragraph in relation to a person (P) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that—
(a) a flight by an unmanned aircraft is taking place or has taken place, and
(b) P is or was the remote pilot or the UAS operator of the unmanned aircraft for the flight.
(2) The constable may require P to provide such information, documentation or evidence that is of a specified description as the constable considers reasonable.
(3) In this paragraph “specified description” means a description specified by the Secretary of State by regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
(4) Regulations under this paragraph that specify a description of information, documentation or evidence may provide for conditions that must be met before a constable may require P to provide information, documentation or evidence that is within that description.
(5) P is guilty of an offence if—
(a) P fails to comply with a requirement imposed by a constable under this paragraph to provide information, documentation or evidence,
(b) P is or was the remote pilot or the UAS operator of the unmanned aircraft for the flight, and
(c) at the time when the constable imposed the requirement, P could have provided information, documentation or evidence of the kind which the constable required P to provide.
(6) A person who is guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
(7) Paragraph 10 includes a defence to the offence under this paragraph.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/12/schedule/9/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/air-traffic-management-and-unmanned-aircraft-act-2021/schedule-9/paragraph-5
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