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General purposesU.K.
10 Purposes to which Part II applies.U.K.
(1)The purposes to which this Part of this Act applies are the protection against acts of violence—
(a)of aircraft, and of persons or property on board aircraft;
(b)of aerodromes, and of such persons or property as (in the case of persons) are at any time present in any part of an aerodrome or (in the case of property) forms part of an aerodrome or is at any time (whether permanently or temporarily) in any part of an aerodrome; and
(c)of air navigation installations which do not form part of an aerodrome.
(2)In this Part of this Act act of violence means any act (whether actual or potential, and whether done or to be done in the United Kingdom or elsewhere) which either—
(a)being an act done in Great Britain, constitutes, or
(b)if done in Great Britain would constitute,
the offence of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, culpable homicide or assault, or an offence under section 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28 or 29 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, under section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 or under section 1 of the Criminal Damage Act 1971 or, in Scotland, the offence of malicious mischief.
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