bui no, €6 of 1988 t i^  aircraft (amendment) bill, 1988 a bill jurther to amend the aircraft act, 1934be it enacted by parliament in the thirty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows: —short title1 this act may be called the aircraft (amendment) act, 19882 in section 10 of the aircraft act, 1934, after sub-section (1), the5 following sub-sections shall be inserted, namely: —r\mendment of act 22 of 1934''(la) if any person contravenes any provision of any rule made under clause (qq) of sub-section (2) of section 5 prohibiting the slaughter and fiaj-ing of animals and of depositing rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious matters within a radius of ten kilo­metres from the aerodrome reference point, he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with bothin recent times, bird strikes to aeroplanes near aerodromes have increased in number and consequent damages to aircraft have multiplied any damage to an aircraft causes heavy financial losses and causes death to passengers sometimes the presence of large number of birds near airports is mainly due to slaughter and flaying of animals and of deposit of rubbish, filth and other polluted and obnoxious substances around aerodromes the penalty provided in the existing law against such deposit of harmful materials which induces the presence of birds is not severe enough to act as an effective deterrent the offence is also not cognizable and as such the offenders cannot be arrested immediately with the result, n o  preventive action can be taken on the spot2 it is, therefore, proposed to amend section 10 of the aircraft act to pro\dde for stringent punishment i^or contravention of any provision of any rule prohibiting the slaughter and flaying of ai^imals and depositing rubbish and filth, etc, around aerodromes3 the bill seeks to achieve the above objectn e w  d e l h i; shivraj v patilthe 8th july, 1988 ab illfu rth er to am end the a ircraft act 1934(shri shivraj v patil, minister oj state of the ministry of civil aviation and tourism)