Aviation Security

• The Aviation and Maritime Security Act allows the Secretary of State to give directions to any individual flying an airplane in the United Kingdom in order to protect an aerodrome. Said protection may involve moving the airplane in a fashion that is advantageous to the defense of the aerodrome. Additionally, the act makes it explicitly illegal to intentionally commit any damages to an aerodrome.
  
  

Maritime Security

• The act allows the Secretary of State to declare any harbor a restricted area. The Secretary may give orders that a restricted area can not be entered or exited by any ship or individual.
  
  

History and Amendments

• The act primarily consolidates issues from other pieces of legislation and makes explicit some offenses that had originally had been illegal simply through common law (such as ship hijacking). It includes amendments to the Aviation Security Act of 1962 and the Merchant Shipping Act of 1970.