(c) fraudulently uses a certificate of registration, airworthiness, or competency which has been forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended, or to which he is not entitled; or
(d) fraudulently lends his certificate of competency, or allows it to be used by any other person; or
(e) forges or fraudulently alters or uses or assists in forging or fraudulently altering or using, or procures to be forged or fraudulently altered or used, or allows to be used by any other person, any mark for identifying an aircraft,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
Punishment for Offences
17—(1) An offence against this Act declared to be a misdemeanour shall be punishable with a fine or with imprisonment not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, but may, instead of being prosecuted on indictment as a misdemeanour, be prosecuted summarily in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and if so prosecuted shall be punishable only with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or with a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or with both such imprisonment and fine.
(2) An offence against this Act not declared to be a misdemeanour shall be prosecuted summarily in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, and shall be punishable with a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or with both such imprisonment and fine.
(3) Where a person is beneficially interested otherwise than by way of mortgage in any aircraft registered in the name of some other person as owner, the person so interested shall as well as the registered owner be subject to all the pecuniary penalties by this Act imposed on owners of aircraft, so nevertheless that proceedings may be taken for the enforcement of any such penalties against both or either of the aforesaid parties with or without joining the other of them.
Provisions as to Public Foreign Aircraft
18—It shall not be lawful for any aircraft in the service of any foreign State to pass over or land on any part of the British Islands or the territorial waters adjacent thereto except on the invitation of His Majesty [or of some department of His Majesty’s Government], and any person carried in an aircraft contravening the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, unless the Secretary of State otherwise orders, the aircraft may be seized, detained, and searched, and the persons carried therein or landed therefrom may be searched in accordance with the provisions of this Act.