THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 15, 1932. 29
38. Applications for licences should be made to the Director of Air Services by whom application forms will be supplied on demand. After forwarding to the Director of Air Services a completed application form, the applicant will be directed where and when to report for examination.
39.- Aircraft and/or engines certified by licensed ground engineers or autho- rised persons may, from time to time, be re-inspected by a person or persons duly autho- rised by the Director of Air Services, to whom is reserved the right to cancel, suspend or endorse licences granted as above should such certified aircraft be deemed by him as a result of such examination to be unsafe.
(ii) The circumstances in which the licence of a ground engineer may be cancelled, suspended or endorsed include, in particular, cases where the ground engineer has signed a certificate in a category for which he is not licensed: Provided that a licence which is not issued in this Colony, will only be suspended or endorsed, pending reference to the Secretary of State for Air.
40. Subject to the proviso in paragraph 39 (ii) the right is reserved to the Director of Air Services to cancel, suspend or endorse the licence of a ground engineer who signs a certificate in a category for which he is not licensed.
41. Subject to the proviso in paragraph-39 (ii) the Director of Air Services may, on sufficient grounds being shown to his satisfaction, after due inquiry and with the approval of the Governor, cancel, suspend or endorse the licence of a ground engineer in circumstances other than those specified in paragraphs 39 (7) and 40.
42. Ground engineers' licences will be valid for a period of twelve months, and will then be subject to renewal. The right is reserved to the Director of Air Services to re-examine the candidate for renewal if considered necessary.
43. Applications for the issue or renewal of ground engineers' licences, should be forwarded to the Director of Air Services, Harbour Office, Victoria, Hong Kong, by whom application forms will be supplied on demand.
SECTION VII.
INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION BEFORE FLIGHT AND AFTER ÖVERHAUL, REPAIR, Etc.
Passenger or Goods Aircraft.
44. The following provisions shall apply to British aircraft registered in this Colony or flying in or over this Colony, and, in either case, carrying passengers or goods for hire or reward, except in the event of special provision being made for the adminis- tration in this Colony of any Rules or Regulations of the country of origin of such aircraft.
(1) Any such aircraft flying on a regular scheduled air service and any aircraft of the Hong Kong Flying Club shall not fly unless it has within twenty-four hours of the commencement of any flight been inspected and certified as safe for flight in accordance with this paragraph, nor during such twenty-four hours if in the course thereof the aircraft has landed owing to a defect which is not such as would in accordance with ordinary aeronautical practice be remedied by the pilot or crew, unless it has, after such defect has been remedied, been again inspected and certified as aforesaid:
Provided that---
(a) if, after leaving the place at which it was last so certified as aforesaid, it has been accidently delayed through some cause other than such a defect as aforesaid, it may proceed to any destination which but for the delay it would have reached within twenty-four hours since it was certified under this paragraph;
(6) nothing in this provision shall require the landing or re-inspection of
any aircraft which is actually in flight.
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