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(4) Subsections (1) to (3) above shall not apply in relation to any aircraft flying from or to any place or area outside the United Kingdom to or from any place in the United Kingdom which is required by or under any enactment relating to air navigation, or is compelled by accident, stress of weather or other unavoidable cause, to land at a place other than a customs and excise airport; but, subject to subsection (5) below,—
 * (a) the commander of any such aircraft—
 * (i) shall immediately report the landing to an officer or constable and shall on demand produce to him the journey log book belonging to the aircraft,
 * (ii) shall not without the consent of an officer permit any goods carried in the aircraft to be unloaded from, or any of the crew or passengers to depart from the vicinity of, the aircraft, and
 * (iii) shall comply with any directions given by an officer with respect to any such goods; and
 * (b) no passenger or member of the crew shall without the consent of an officer or constable leave the immediate vicinity of any such aircraft.

(5) Nothing in subsection (4) above shall prohibit—
 * (a) the departure of passengers or crew from the vicinity of an aircraft; or
 * (b) the removal of goods from an aircraft,

where that departure or removal is necessary for reasons of health, safety or the preservation of life or property.

(6) Any person contravening or failing to comply with any provision of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of £200, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or to both.

(7) In this Act “customs and excise airport” means an aerodrome for the time being designated as a place for the landing or departure of aircraft for the purposes of the customs and excise Acts by an order made by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Commissioners which is in force under an Order in Council made in pursuance of section 8 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949.

22.—(1) The Commissioners may, in any customs and excise airport, approve for such periods and subject to such conditions and restrictions as they think fit a part of, or a place at, that airport for the loading and unloading of goods and the