196658-1933-Air-Navigation-Colonies-Protectorates-and-Mandated-Territories--Amendment-Order-1932 — Page 5

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 3, 1933. 121

(b) The following paragraph shall be inserted immediately

before paragraph 4 :-

"3. No licence shall be granted if the Governor is not satisfied that the applicant is a fit and proper person to hold the licence.

Citation and com-

9.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories) (Amend- mencement. ment), Order, 1932.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1933.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

SCHEDULE.

PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SECTION I OF

SCHEDULE IV OF THE PRINCIPAL ORDER.

SECTION I.

Interpretation.

1. For the purpose of this Schedule-

(a) An aircraft shall be deemed to be on the surface of the water when any part of the aircraft is in contact with the water;

(b) An aircraft, being in the air or on the surface of the water, shall be deemed to be under way when it is not moored to the ground or to any fixed object on the land or in the water;

(c) An aircraft under way in the air or on the surface of the water shall be deemed to be making way when it has a velocity relative to the air or water respectively: (d) An aircraft shall be deemed not to be under control when it is unable to execute a manoeuvre required in respect of it by the rules laid down in this Schedule or by the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Seaj

(e) The expression "landing area" means that part of an aerodrome which is reserved for departures and landing of aircraft;

(f) The expression "visible", when used in relation to lights, means visible on a dark night with а clear atmosphere;

(g) The expression "plane of symmetry", in relation to an aircraft, means the plane of symmetry passing through the longitudinal axis of the aircraft; (h) The angular limits for lights laid down in the rules in Section IA of this Schedule shall be determined when the aircraft is in its normal,attitude for flying on a rectilinear horizontal course, as illustrated in the following sketch plan:-

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