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Power to Governor to proscribe landing places for aircraft coming into Colony From outside
Colony.
Power to compel
compliance
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No 26 of 1912.
ARCRAFT.
(4) Every person who contravenes the provisions of this section or who contravenes any of the conditions aforesaid shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceedling five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months and to the forfeiture of any photographs, negatives, photographic apparatus, sketches. sketching materials, maps and plans not expressly authorised in any such written permission as aforesaid which in the opinion of the magistrate appear to have been carried by the offender during any ascent from or light over or above or descent to any portion of the Colony or the waters thereof.
4. (1) The Governor shall have power by order to prescribe such place or places in the Colony within which aircraft coming from any place or ship outside the Colony or the waters of the Colony are to land and any other conditions to be complied with by such aircraft, and every person who contravenes any of the provisions of any such order shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, unless le proves that he was compelled to commit such contravention by reason of stress of weather or other circumstances over which he had no control,
(2) If without the permission required by section 3 an aircraft Hies or attempts to fly over or above any portion of when aircraft the Colony or of the waters of the Colony or, in the case of sigual.
an aircraft coming from any place or ship outside the Colony or the waters of the Colony, fails to comply with any of the conditions as to landing which may be prescribed by an order made under sub-section (1), it shall be lawful for any officer, designated for the purpose by regulations made by the Governor, to cause such signal as may be prescribed by those regulations to be given, and, if, after such signal has been given, the aircraft fails to respond to the signal by complying with such regulations as may be made by the Governor prescribing the action to be taken on such a signal being given, it shall be lawful for the officer, to fire at or into such aircraft and to use any and every other means necessary to compel compliance, and every and any such officer and every other person acting in his aid and by his direction shall be and is hereby indemnified and discharged from any indictment, penalty, action, or other proceeding for so doing.
* As amended by No, 12 of 3911 and Law Rev. Ord. 1921.
Price 10 couts (Hongkong Currency). To be purchased from Messrs. Noxonna & Co., Government Printers, Hongkong, and from the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, London, S. W. 1.
Secret
Dear Clutterbuck,
AIR MINISTRY.
ADASTRAL HOUSE,
KINGSWAY, W.C.2.
3 November, 1926.
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Reference your letter of 20th October on Cantonese aircraft. I enclose copy of demi- official letter from Foreign Office, which clears up the situation.
I am sending a copy to Captain Egerton, Admiralty, but we do not propose to take any further or official action.
Clutterbuck Esq., Colonial office,
S.7.1.
M.C.
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Yours Swicerely,
BES mythies.