CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7] — Page 163

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Report

on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend

the Airships Ordinance, 1912.

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ZAYAKANO ELVIHEZNO YEAHOTTA

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6Z AIZAZIⱭNO NO TROJAN

1.

The object of this Ordinance is to enable force to be used if

necessary against any dircraft flying over any portion of the Colony,

or coming from some place or ship outside the Colony, which fails to

respond in the prescribed manner to a signal given in accordance with

regulations to be made by the Governor, It also gives the Governor

power to prescribe landing places for aircraft coming from any place

or ship outside the Colony, and to prescribe the conditions to be com-

plied with by such aircraft.

2/- The Ordinance was introduced under instructions from the Right

Honourable the Secretary of State contained in his Despatch of the

9th February, 1914, and it is modelled upon the Aerial Navigation Act,

1913,

bestitue sonsaibro qiiqunțœove it byatman ozed i

9₫i od 7181iNou tou si anifu am ei onnivo oli mis coinka

1 buk

3/-

Section 1 is formal,

Section 2 contains a definition of "Aircraft".

Section 3 (1) gives power to the Governor to prescribe landing

places for aircraft coming from any place or ship outside the Colony, and to prescribe the conditions to be complied with by such aircraft.

the

The penalty provided is/equivalent of the penalty for offences under

the Aerial Navigation Act, 1911.

Section 3 (2) gives power to use force against aircraft under certain circumstances and is taken from Section 2 of the Aerial Navi-

gation Act, 1913.

4/-

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His

behalf.

Attorney General,

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