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(4) The powers conferred by subsection (3) above shall not include power for an authorised person to use force for the purpose of entering any aircraft, building or works or entering upon any land.

(5) Any person who—
 * (a) wilfully obstructs or impedes a person acting in the exercise of a power conferred on him by or under this section, or
 * (b) refuses or, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under subsection (2)(b) above, or
 * (c) in furnishing any information so required, makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
 * (i) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
 * (ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

Air navigation installations

21.—(1) Sections 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 20 of this Act shall have effect in relation to air navigation installations in the United Kingdom in accordance with the following provisions of this section.

(2) In relation to any such air navigation installation which does not form part of an aerodrome, those sections shall have effect, subject to subsection (5) below, as if in them any reference to an aerodrome were a reference to such an air navigation installation and any reference to the manager of an aerodrome were a reference to the authority responsible for such an air navigation installation.

(3) Where an air navigation installation forms part of an aerodrome in the United Kingdom, those sections shall have effect, subject to subsection (5) below, as if in them any reference to an aerodrome were a reference either—
 * (a) to an aerodrome, or
 * (b) to an air navigation installation which forms part of an aerodrome, or