THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 17, 1937.

aircraft, and use any and every other means necessary to compel [Schedule compliance, and every and any such officer and every other person VI,-contd.] acting in his aid and by his direction shall be and is hereby in- demnified and discharged from any indictment, penalty, action or other proceeding for so doing.

7.--(1) Where it is brought to the notice of the Governor—

(a) that a large number of persons is likely to gather in any district in the Colony for the purpose of witnessing some event of public interest; or

(b) that it is intended to hold in any district in the Colony an aircraft race or contest or exhibition of flying; or

(c) that any district in the Colony is to be used for purposes relating to defence which render expedient the temporary restriction of the flying of aircraft within or in the neighbourhood of such district;

the Governor may by directions impose such temporary restrictions on the flying of aircraft within or in the neighbourhood of that district as he may

consider expedient in the interest of public safety or for the purpose of any such user as aforesaid, and no air- craft shall fly in contravention of any such directions:

Provided that any such restrictions, in so far as they relate to aircraft other than State aircraft, shall apply to British aircraft and aircraft registered in any other Contracting State without distinction.

(2) Any directions issued under this paragraph shall specify the area or areas to which the restrictions extend and the time or times during which the restrictions are to be in force, and, in the case of restrictions applying only to aircraft of, or other than, any particular class or description, the class or description of aircraft to which the restrictions apply, or do not apply, as the case may be.

(3) Any area specified in any such directions shall, during the specified time or times, be deemed to be a prohibited area for the purposes of paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Schedule, but not for the purposes of any other provisions of this Order.

SCHEDULE VII.

ANNEX H. OF THE CONVENTION.

CUSTOMS.

General Provisons.

1. Any aircraft going abroad shall depart only from aerodromes specially designated by the customs administration of each contracting State, and named "customs aerodromes".

Aircraft coming from abroad shall land only in such aerodromes.

2. Every aircraft which passes from one State into another is obliged to cross the frontier between certain points fixed by the contracting States. These points are shown on the aeronautical

maps.

3. All necessary information concerning customs aerodromes within a State, including any alterations made to the list and any corresponding alterations necessary on the aeronautical maps and the dates when such alterations become valid, and all other information concerning any international aerodromes which may be established. shall be communicated by the State concerned to the International Commission for Air Navigation, which shall notify such information

As amended by O. in C. of 1.7.37 (G.N. 819 of 1937) in force 1.8.37. + As amended by O. in C. of 9.11.31 (G.N. 10 of 1932) in force 1.1.32.

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