If any provision of this Order is contravened in relation to an aircraft, the operator and the commander of that aircraft is (without prejudice to the liability of any other person under this Order for that contravention) deemed for the purposes of the following provisions of this article to have contravened that provision unless he proves that the contravention occurred without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the contravention.

If it is proved that an act or omission of any person which would otherwise have been a contravention by that person of a provision of this Order was due to any cause not avoidable by the exercise of reasonable care by that person, the act or omission is deemed not to be a contravention by that person of that provision.

If any person contravenes any provisions of this Order, not being a provision referred to in paragraph (4), he is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

If any person contravenes article 4(1), 6(2), 7(2), 14(2), 15(2), 16(3), 23, 24(3) or 26 he is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.