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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 4, 1935.

No. 16.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

4th January, 1935.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1934,

No. 1259.

AIR NAVIGATION.

THE CARRIAGE BY AIR (PARTIES TO CONVENTION) ORDER, 1934.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1934.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

Whereas a Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air was on the twelfth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, signed at War- saw on behalf of His Majesty :

And whereas provision is made by the Carriage by Air Act, 1932, (a) for giving effect to the said Convention :

And whereas by subsection (2) of section one of the said Act His Majesty may by Order in Council from time to time certify who are the High Contracting Parties to the said Con- vention, in respect of what territories they are respectively parties and to what extent they have availed themselves of the provisions of the Additional Protocol to the said Convention:

And whereas since the date of the Carriage by Air (Parties to Convention) Order, 1933, (b) certain additional States have ratified, or acceded to, the said Convention, and it is, therefore expedient that the said Order of 1933 should be superseded by a more comprehensive Order:

Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. It is hereby certified that the High Contracting Parties to the said Convention and the territories in respect of which they are respectively parties are as specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, and that the only High Contracting

(a) 22-3 G. 5. c. 36.

(b) S.R. & O. 1933 (No. 543) p. 349.