Control over land in the interests of civil aviation

(1) The Minister may, by Order, declare that any land, structure, works or apparatus specified in the Order shall be subject to control by directions under this section if he is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the interests of civil (2) Where any such Order is in force, the Minister may, in pursuance of any general or special authority given by the Order, give directions– (a) for restricting the height of buildings or structures or requiring the total or partial demolition of any building or structure within the area specified; (b) for restricting the height of trees upon any land within the area, or for requiring any tree on any such land to be cut down or reduced in height; (c) for extinguishing any private right of way over land within the area; (d) for requiring the removal or restricting the installation of cables, mains, pipes, wires or other apparatus upon, across, over or under any land within the area; (e) for extinguishing, at the expiration of such period as may be specified in the directions, any subsisting right of installing or maintaining any such apparatus as aforesaid Civil Aviation Act 21 upon, across, over or under any land within the area; (f) for requiring that, before the expiration of such period as may be specified in the directions, any such apparatus shall be removed from land within the area. (3) Any such Order may contain such consequential, incidental and supplemental provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Order, including, in particular, provisions for empowering any person authorised in that behalf by the Minister, to remove, pull down, cut down, or alter so as to bring into conformity with the requirements of any directions under the Order, any building, structure, tree or apparatus which contravenes those requirements. (4) An Order under this section shall be subject to negative resolution. (5) The Minister shall give notice of any direction given pursuant to this section by publishing the direction in the Gazette and by taking such steps as he considers reasonable for securing that a copy of the direction is served on each person appearing to him to be the owner or occupier of any land to which the direction relates. (6) A person who obstructs any other person in the exercise of any powers conferred upon that other person by virtue of this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment.