{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-security-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-security-anguilla-order-1987/schedule/paragraph-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/451",
  "legislation_title": "The Aviation Security (Anguilla) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aviation-security-anguilla-order-1987",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/38",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Interpretation, etc.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—\n“act of violence” shall be construed in accordance with section 2(7) of this Act;\n“article” includes any substance, whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour;\n“constable” includes any member of the Anguilla Police Force and any other person having the powers and privileges of a constable;\n“military service” includes naval and air force service;\n“property” includes any land, buildings or works, any aircraft or vehicle and any baggage, cargo or other article of any description;\n“United Kingdom national” means an individual who is—\n(a) a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen or a British Overseas citizen;\n(b) a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject;\n(c) a British protected person (within the meaning of that Act); or\n(d) a person who under the Hong Kong Act 1985 is a British National (Overseas).\n(2) For the purposes of this Act—\n(a) the period during which an aircraft is in flight shall be deemed to include any period from the moment when all its external doors are closed following embarkation until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation, and, in the case of a forced landing, any period until the competent authorities take over responsibility for the aircraft and for persons and property on board; and\n(b) an aircraft shall be taken to be in service during the whole of the period which begins with the pre-flight preparation of the aircraft for a flight and ends 24 hours after the aircraft lands having completed that flight, and also at any time (not falling within that period) while, in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the aircraft is in flight.\n(3) Subject to section 18 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to offences under two or more laws), the preceding provisions of this Act shall not be construed as—\n(a) conferring a right of action in any civil proceedings in respect of any contravention of this Act, or\n(b) derogating from any right of action or other remedy (whether civil or criminal) in proceedings instituted otherwise than under this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 61."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/451/schedule/paragraph/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:35.772042+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}