Penalties

(1) If any provision of this Order or of any regulation made thereunder is contravened in relation to an aircraft, the operator of that aircraft and the commander thereof, if the operator or, as the case may be, the commander is not the person who contravened that provision shall (without prejudice to the liability of any other person under this Order for that contravention) be 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. (2) 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 or of any regulations made thereunder was due to any cause not avoidable by the exercise of 398 Civil Aviation reasonable care by that person the act or omission shall be deemed not to be a contravention by that person of that (3) Where a person is charged with contravening a provision of this Order or of any regulations made thereunder by reason of his having been a member of the flight crew of an aircraft on a flight for the purpose of public transport the flight shall be treated (without prejudice to the liability of any other person under this Order) as not having been for that purpose if he proves that he neither knew nor had reason to know that the flight was for that purpose. (4) If any person contravenes any provision of this Order, or of any regulations made thereunder, not being a provision referred to in paragraph (5) or paragraph (6) of this Article, he shall be liable on conviction, to a fine not exceeding ten pounds; or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the like offence to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds. (5) If any person contravenes any provision specified in Part A of the Fourteenth Schedule to this Order, he shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; or in the case of a second or subsequent conviction for the like offence to a fine of one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment. (6) If any person contravenes any provision specified in Part B of the said Schedule, he shall be liable on conviction or indictment to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment. Extra-territorial