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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 27, 1928.
provisions to be observed by aircraft flying abroad.
Forgery, &c., of documents.
(2) If such points are for the time being so prescribed, no aircraft shall enter the Colony from abroad or leave the Colony for abroad except between such points:
Provided that—
(a) if an aircraft is compelled by accident, stress of weather, or unavoidable cause to enter the Colony from abroad elsewhere than between such points it shall land at the Customs aero- drome, if any, in the Colony nearest to its route; and
(b) if an aircraft arriving from a place outside the Colony shall land in any place other than a Customs aerodrome, the pilot shall forthwith report to an Officer of Customs and Excise or police constable and shall on demand produce to such officer or police constable the log-hook belonging to the aircraft and shail not allow any goods to be unloaded therefrom without the consent of an officer of Customs and Excise and no passenger thereof shall leave the immediate vicinity without the consent of an Officer of Customs and Excise or police constable. If such place of landing shall be an aerodrome, the pilot shall forthwith report the arrival of the aircraft and the place whence it came to the proprietor of the aerodrome who shall forthwith report the arrival of the aircraft to an officer of Customs and Excise and shall not allow any goods to be unloaded therefrom or any passenger thereof to leave the aerodrome without the consent of such officer
(3) Any enactments for the time being in force restricting the landing of aliens or any orders made thereunder with respect to persons arriving in or departing from the Colony shall apply to persons arriving or departing by air as if the same were herein set out, with such modifications as are necessary for adapting them to such purpose.
(4) The Governor shall make such regulations for the application of the law relating to Customs to aircraft arriving in or departing from the Colony as may be necessary and not inconsistent with the Convention.
24. If the Governor is satisfied that any person has, in respect of any British aircraft registered in the Colony, been convicted by a competent court of an offence against the provisions of the Customs law of a contract- ing State, so far as those provisions are in accordance with Annex H of the Convention, which is set out in Schedule VII to this Order, he may (without prejudice to any other powers conferred upon him by this Order) cancel or suspend the certificate of registration of that aircraft.
25.-(1) A person shall not----
(a) forge or fraudulently alter or assist in forging or fraudulently altering, or procure to be forged or fraudulently altered, any licence or certificate required under this Order; or
(b) make, assist in making, or procure to be made any false repre- sentation for the purpose of procuring for himself or any other person the issue, validation, or renewal of any such licence or certificate; or
(c) fraudulently use any such licence or certificate which has been forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended, or to which he is not entitled; or
(d) fraudulently lend any such licence or certificate or allow it to be
used by any other person.
(2) A person shall not destroy, mutilate, alter, or render illegible any log-book or any entry made therein, or wilfully make or procure or assist in the making of any false or fraudulent entry in or ommission from any log-book.