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  "legislation_title": "The Aviation Security and Piracy (Overseas Territories) Order 2000",
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  "heading": "Powers exercisable on suspicion of intended offence under Part I",
  "text": "(1) Where a police officer has reasonable cause to suspect that a person about to embark on an aircraft in the Territory, or a person on board such an aircraft, intends to commit, in relation to the aircraft, an offence under any of the preceding provisions of this Part of this Act (other than section 4), the police officer may prohibit him from travelling on board the aircraft, and for the purpose of enforcing that prohibition the police officer—\n(a) may prevent him from embarking on the aircraft or, as the case may be, may remove him from the aircraft; and\n(b) may arrest him without warrant and detain him for so long as may be necessary for that purpose.\n(2) Any person who intentionally obstructs a person acting in the exercise of a power conferred on him by subsection (1) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.\n(3) Subsection (1) above shall have effect without prejudice to the operation in relation to any offence under this Act of any enactment or rule of law relating to the power of arrest without warrant.",
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