Civil Aviation Act 1949

4 (1) Any person against whom a claim is made in respect of any such liability as is required to be covered by a policy of insurance under Part IV of this Act shall, on demand by or on behalf of the person making the claim, state whether or not, at the time of the event which was the cause of the loss or damage giving rise to the claim, he, or (if the claim is made against him as representing the estate of a deceased person) the deceased, was insured in respect of that liability by any policy having effect for the purposes of Part IV of this Act, or would have been so insured if the insurer had not avoided or cancelled the policy, and, if he or the deceased, as the case may be, was or would have been so insured, give such particulars with respect to that policy as were specified .in the certificate of insurance delivered in connection with the policy.

(2) If any person fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with this paragraph, or wilfully makes any false statement in reply to such a demand as aforesaid, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a first offence, twenty pounds or, in the case of a second or subsequent offence, fifty pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months.