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Statistics of Trade Act 1947
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10 Information from persons entering or leaving the United Kingdom by air. U.K.
(1)The Board of Trade may by order make provision whereby any person entering or leaving the United Kingdom by air may be required to give, to such person and in such form and manner as may be prescribed, particulars of his age, sex and marriage[F1or civil partnership] and of the nature of his occupation and particulars of the country in which he last permanently resided and the country in which he intends next permanently to reside.
(2)If it is not reasonably practicable to require any such person to give any such particulars as aforesaid any other person in whose company and under whose care he is travelling may be required to give those particulars on his behalf.
(3)If any person required to give information in pursuance of any such order as aforesaid fails to comply with that requirement, he shall unless he proves that he had reasonable excuse for the failure be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F2level 2 on the standard scale].
(4)If any person in purported compliance with that requirement knowingly or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or, in either case, to both such imprisonment and such fine.
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F1Words in s. 10(1) inserted (15.4.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(b), Sch. 27 para. 12; S.I. 2005/1112, art. 2, Sch. 1
F2Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46, (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G and (N.I.) by S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), arts. 5, 6
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C1Certain functions of the Secretary of State transferred by S.I. 1989/992, art. 2(1)(2)
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