Civil Aviation Act 1949

8 (1) The Minister may make regulations—

(a) for prescribing the forms of certificates of insurance and certificates of security to be used for the purposes of Part IV of this Act, and the particulars to be contained in such certificates ;

(b) as to applications for, and the issue of, such certificates of insurance and certificates of security, as to the issue of copies of any such certificates which are lost or destroyed, and as to the keeping of records and documents and the furnishing of particulars, and the giving of information with respect thereto, to the Minister or a chief officer of police;

(c) as to the carrying of documents in aircraft, and as to the production of such documents on demand to such persons as may be specified in the regulations;

(d) for prescribing (without prejudice to any Order in Council made under Part IV of this Act) that the provisions of Part IV of this Act which relate to insurance, securities and deposits in respect of third party risks shall, in relation to any such class of aircraft registered outside the United Kingdom as may be specified in the regulations, have effect subject to such modifications, adaptations and exceptions as may be so specified; and

(e) generally for carrying into effect the said provisions of Part IV of this Act.

(2) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with any regulations made by the Minister under this paragraph, that person shall be liable on summary conviction to such fine, not exceeding twenty pounds, as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Any statutory instrument containing regulations made by the Minister under this paragraph shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(4) In this paragraph the expression " chief officer of police " has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Act, 1921.