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Superintendent and shall truly state in such form the particulars thereby required; and such form when signed by the proper officer of Customs shall be the clearance and authority for the exportation of such goods.
(2) A person shall not export goods in such aircraft until such authority has been given by the proper officer of Customs.
132. A person shall not without the consent of the proper officer of Customs unload from any aircraft any goods loaded therein for exportation which have been cleared under paragraph 131 of this section, or open, alter or break any lock, mark or seal placed by any officer of Customs on any goods in any aircraft about to depart from the Colony.
General Provisions.
133. If any officer of Customs in the execution of his duties boards any aircraft in any place, the pilot thereof shall not convey him in the aircraft away from such place without his consent.
134. If any 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 or police officer, and shall on demand produce to such officer or police officer the journey log-book belonging to the aircraft, and shall not allow any goods to be unloaded therefrom without the consent of an officer of Customs, and no passenger thereof shall leave the immediate vicinity without the consent of an officer of Customs or police officer. 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 shall not allow any goods to be unloaded therefrom or any passenger thereof to leave the aerodrome without the consent of such officer.
135.-(1) The proprietor of any aerodrome shall at all times permit any officer of Customs to enter and inspect his aerodrome and all buildings and goods thereon.
(2) The pilot of any aircraft shall permit any officer of Customs at any time to board and inspect his aircraft, and any goods laden therein, and every such officer shall have the right of access at any time to any place to which access is necessary for the purpose of such inspection.
(3) The importer or exporter of any goods imported or exported in an aircraft shall produce such goods to the proper officer of Customs at the Customs aerodrome of im- portation or exportation, as the case may be, and permit him to inspect such goods.
136. (1) The provisions of the enactments relating to dutiable goods or to im- portation, shall so far as they are applicable, apply to aircraft and to goods, mails and persons carried in or landed from them as they apply to ships and to goods, mails and persons carried in or landed from ships.
(2) The Superintendent may modify the form of any document prescribed by the enactments relating to dutiable goods or to importation, so as to make such form appli- cable to aircraft or to goods carried therein.
SECTION XX.
ACCIDENTS.
137. Except as mentioned in paragraph 141, the directions contained in paragraphs 138 to 140 only apply where,-
(i) the accident has involved death or personal injury to any person, whether
carried in the aircraft or not, or
(ii) the accident has caused serious structural damage, that is to say, the telescop- ing or breaking apart of the fuselage, or breaking of a main spar, or the breaking of any part of the controls, or damage by fire to any part of the aircraft; or
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