Power to Regulate Aerial Navigation
1—(1) The Secretary of State may by order regulate or prohibit aerial navigation by British or foreign aircraft or any class or description thereof over the British Islands and the territorial waters adjacent thereto, or any portions thereof, and in particular, but without derogating from the generality of the above provision, may by any such order—
(a) prescribe zones (hereinafter referred to as prohibited zones) over which it shall not (except as otherwise provided by the order) be lawful for aircraft to pass;
(b) prescribe the areas within which aircraft coming from any place outside the British Islands shall land, and the other conditions to be complied with by such aircraft;
(c) prohibit, restrict, or regulate the carriage in aircraft of explosives, munitions of war, carrier pigeons, photographic and radio-telegraphic apparatus and any other article the carriage of which may appear to the Secretary of State to be dangerous to the State or to the person or property of individuals;
(d) prohibit, restrict, or regulate the carriage in aircraft of merchandise or passengers;
(e) make such provision as may appear best calculated to prevent damage and nuisance being caused by aircraft.
(2) If any person does anything in contravention of any of the provisions of any such order he shall in respect of each offence be guilty of a misdemeanour:
Provided that if it is proved that the contravention was committed with the intention of communicating to any foreign State any information, document, sketch, plan, model, or knowledge acquired, made or taken or with the intention of facilitating the communication at a future time of information to a foreign State any information, document, sketch, plan, model or knowledge acquired, made or taken or with the intention of facilitating the communication at a future time of information to a foreign State, he shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction on indictment be liable to penal servitude for life or for any term not less than three years, and this proviso shall have effect and be construed as if it were part of the Official Secrets Act, 1889.
(3) Every order under this section shall have effect as if enacted in this Act, but as soon as may be after it is made shall be laid before each House of Parliament, and if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat next after any such order came into force, praying that the order may be annulled, His Majesty may annul the order and it shall thenceforth be void, without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.