Civil Aviation Act 1949

5 (1) Where a certificate of insurance has been delivered in connection with a policy of insurance, and the policy is cancelled by mutual consent or by virtue of any provision in the policy, the person to whom the certificate was delivered shall, within seven days from the taking effect of the cancellation, surrender the certificate to the insurer or, if it has been lost or destroyed, send a written notice to that effect by post to the insurer.

Where a notice is sent to an insurer in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, the person sending the notice shall, if within seven days after the receipt thereof he is requested by the insurer so to do, make a statutory declaration to the effect that the certificate of insurance to which the notice relates has been lost or destroyed, as the case may be.

(2) If any person fails to comply with this paragraph, 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.

(3) Any reference in this paragraph to a certificate of insurance shall, in relation to a policy in connection with which more than one such certificate is issued, be construed as a reference to all the certificates, and shall, where any copy of such a certificate has been issued, be construed as including a reference to that copy.