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1969 Ed.]

Tokyo Convention.

[App. III

CS 5

(i) an Order in Council made under section 8 of the Civil Aviation

Act 1949, or

(ii) the Civil Aviation (Licensing) Act 1960(a) or this Act,

by, or by the Minister in charge of, a Government Department, by an official of a Government Department who is specified for the purpose in any such Order in Council, or by the Air Registration Board of the United Kingdom or the Air Transport Licensing Board of the United Kingdom or by the competent authority in any Territory for the registration or licensing of aircraft; or

(b) a document printed by Her Majesty's Stationery Office and purporting to be the publication known as the "United Kingdom Air Pilot" or a publication of the series known as "Notam-United Kingdom" or a publication in the Official Gazette for any Territory of a notice similar to a "Notam-United Kingdom" but notifying matters related to any Territory,

shall be evidence of the matters appearing from that document.

(2) Any records that are admissible in evidence in any legal proceed- ings in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 5 of the Civil Aviation (Euro-control) Act 1962(b) as modified by section 6(2) of this Act as in force in the United Kingdom, and of any regulations or Orders in Council made under or continued in force by either of those provisions, shall be admissible in evidence in any legal proceedings in the Territory.

7. (1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to

say-

"aircraft" means any aircraft, whether or not a British-controlled aircraft,

other than-

(a) a military aircraft; or

(b) an aircraft which, not being a military aircraft, belongs to or is exclusively employed in the service of Her Majesty in right of the United Kingdom or in right of any Territory;

but the Governor of any Territory with the approval of the Secretary of State may by order, which may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order, provide that any of the provisions of this Act shall apply with or without modifications to aircraft such as are mentioned in paragraph (b) of this definition;

"British-controlled aircraft” means an aircraft-

(a) which is for the time being registered in the United

Kingdom or in any Territory; or

(b) which is not for the time being registered in any country but in the case of which either the operator of the air- craft or each person entitled as owner to any legal or beneficial interest in it satisfies the following requirements, namely--

(a) 1960 c. 38. (b) 1962 c. 8.

(i) that he is a person qualified to be the owner of a legal or beneficial interest in an aircraft registered in the United Kingdom or in any Territory; and

Interpretation, etc.