THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 8, 1932. 7
And whereas it is expedient that the Principal Order should be further amended so as to make certain of the provisions of the said Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order, 1929, the said Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 3) Order, 1929, the said Air Navigation (Amendment) (No. 2) Order, 1930, and the said Air Navigation (Amendment) Order, 1931, applicable to the British possessions and territories mentioned in Schedules VIII and IX of the said Principal Order and to registered aircraft being the property of British subjects resident or companies incorporated therein, and otherwise in the manner hereinafter appearing:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and iu exercise of all the powers enabling Hi in this behalf, is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1. Paragraph (1) of Article 4 of the Principal Order, shall be amended:-
(1) by inserting after the word "aircraft" in sub-paragraph (iii) the words "shall
be of the prescribed number and description and"; and
(2) by inserting after the words “ Condition (iii)" in proviso (b) the words “in
so far as it relates to certificates of competency and licences.'
2. Paragraph (2) of Article 6 of the Principal Order shall be omitted.
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3. Article 13 of the Principal Order shall be amended by the addition at the end of the words “and if any article other than as aforesaid drops or falls from an aircraft a contravention of this Order shall be deemed to have been committed."
4. The following Article shall be inserted after Article 3 of the Principal Order: --- "13A.-The Governor may by directions prescribe the number and description
of the personnel to be carried, either in all circumstances or in certain circumstances specified in the directions, by any class or description of British Aircraft registered in the Colony:
Provided that in any case where the Convention requires that an aircraft shall carry a certain number of persons of a certain description, the number of persons of that description prescribed in that case shall not be less than the number required by the Convention."
5. Paragraph (1) of Article 22 of the Principal Order shall be amended by the insertion after the words "registration marks" of the words "preceded, in the case of a signal by radio-telephony, by the name of the owner of the aircraft."
6. Paragraph 2 of Schedule I to the Principal Order shall be amended by inserting after the words "validly registered" the words "in any other part of His Majesty's dominions or".
7. Paragraph 20 of Schedule I to the Principal Order shall be omitted.
8. Sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 14 of Schedule IV to the Principal Order shall be amended by omitting the words "constituted by its nationality letter and the last letter of its registration mark" and substituting therefor the words "composed of the first letter and the last letter of the five-letter group constituting its nationality and registration marks."
9. Paragraph 17 of Schedule IV to the Principal Order shall be amended by omitting the words "is in distress and requires assistance" and substituting therefor the words "is threatened by grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance,” and by omitting the words from "When an aircraft desires to sigual" to the end of the paragraph.
10. The following new paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph 17 of Schedule IV to the Principal Order:
“17\.--(a) Where an aircraft has a message to send stating that it is in difficulties and about to land compulsorily but does not require immediate assistance, it shall preface its call sign with several repeti- tions of the urgency igual PÂN.