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the
CONFIDENTIAL
Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order 1977
LAST PAPER
Handed over by
Edwards to Liu an
30.10.92
The Chinese side have enquired at JLG XXIV about
position of the paper on the Air Navigation (Overseas
Territories) Order 1977, which was foreshadowed in the
first of the three papers we handed over in December 1988
on subsidiary legislation.
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2.
original
The Chinese side may wish to note that our
intention was to localize the whole of the United
Kingdom Civil Aviation Act of 1949 as applied to Hong Kong
relevant subsidiary · legislation
made under it,
and the
including
the Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Order,
all in one go.
the
However, when the British side proposed to
Chinese side in March 1989 an expanded First Stage
Bill, the scope did not include
equivalent of the Air Navigation
Order.
power to make a local
(Overseas Territories)
This was because we proposed that the localization
of those powers should preferably be left for a second
stage Civil Aviation Bill.
3.
The Air Navigation
(Overseas
Territories) Order
currently applied to HK comprises over 90 Articles and 16
Schedules and covers many day-to-day operational issues
including registration of aircraft, the issue of operators'
certificates
and
standards
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