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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-act-1949-overseas-territories-order-1969/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1969/592",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Aviation Act 1949 (Overseas Territories) Order 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-aviation-act-1949-overseas-territories-order-1969",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "“Investigation of accidents\nSection 10 (1) The Governor may make regulations providing for the investigation of any accident arising out of or in the course of air navigation, and either occurring in or over the Colony or occurring elsewhere to British aircraft registered in the Colony.\n(2) Regulations under this section may contain provisions—\n(a) requiring notice to be given of any such accident as aforesaid in such manner and by such persons as may be specified;\n(b) applying, with or without modification, for the purpose of investigations held with respect to any such accidents any of the provisions of any law in force in the Colony relating to the investigation of deaths or accidents;\n(c) prohibiting, pending investigation, access to or interference with aircraft to which an accident has occurred, and authorising any person, so far as may be necessary for the purposes of an investigation, to have access to, examine, remove, take measures for the preservation of, or otherwise deal with, any such aircraft;\n(d) authorising or requiring the cancellation, suspension, endorsement or surrender of any licence or certificate granted in the Colony under this Part of this Act or any Order in Council or order made under this Part of this Act, or the withdrawal or suspension of any validation conferred in the Colony of a licence granted by a duly competent authority elsewhere, where it appears on an investigation that the licence or certificate ought to be cancelled, suspended, endorsed or surrendered, or the validation withdrawn or suspended, as the case may be, and requiring the production of any such licence or certificate for the purpose of being so dealt with:\nProvided that nothing in this section shall limit the powers of any authority under sections 530 to 537 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 or any enactment amending those sections.\n(3) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any regulations under this section, he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.\n(5) Part VI of this Act applies to this section.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1452",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Overseas Territories) Order 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "deleted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1452",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Aviation Act 1982 (Overseas Territories) Order 2001"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/592/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
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