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537AX PDFTitle:United Nations Sanctions (Afghanistan) Regulation 2012Gazette Number:L.N. 43 of 2012
Section:17Heading:Power of authorized officers to enter and detain aircraftVersion Date:23/03/2012

(1) Without limiting section 16, if an authorized officer has reason to suspect that a request that has been made under section 15(2) may not be complied with, the officer may take any steps that appear to the officer to be necessary to secure compliance with that request including, in particular, any of the following steps¡X

    (a) enter or authorize the entry on any land or the aircraft concerned;
    (b) detain or authorize the detention of that aircraft or any of its cargo;
    (c) use or authorize the use of reasonable force.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), subsection (1) does not authorize the detention of an aircraft for more than 6 hours.
(3) The Chief Secretary for Administration may, by order in writing, authorize the detention of an aircraft for further periods of not more than 6 hours each, and the order must state the time from which, and period for which, the order is effective.