(4) If the infringement of the collision regulations is caused by any wilful default, the wilful default shall be deemed to be the wilful default of the navigator. Provided that if the navigator proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he issued proper orders for the observance and used due diligence to enforce the observance of the collision regulations, and that the whole responsibility for the infringement in question rested with some other person, the navigator shall be exempt from any punishment under this provision.
(5) The collision regulations may provide for the inspection of aircraft for the purpose of seeing that the craft is properly provided with lights and the means of making fog signals in conformity with the collision regulations [and the seizure and detention of any craft not so provided].
Identification Regulations
7—(1) The Board of Trade may make regulations providing generally for facilitating the identification of aircraft, and in particular for
determining and regulating generally the size, shape, and character of the identifying marks to be fixed under the regulations, and the mode in which they are to be affixed and rendered easily distinguishable [whether by night or day], and any such regulations may provide for the recognition of identifying marks complying with the law of any British possession or foreign nation which appears to the Board of Trade equally effective for facilitating the identification of aircraft.
(2) The regulations under this section may provide for the seizure and detention of any aircraft which is not marked in accordance with those regulations.
(3) If any person navigates or allows to be navigated any aircraft in respect of which any of the requirements of the regulations made under this section are not complied with, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act [qu. he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour].
Aircraft Papers
8—(1) The Board of Trade may make regulations—
(a) requiring logs and such other papers as may be prescribed to be carried in aircraft;