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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 27, 1937.

(a) prescribing the authority by which any of the powers exerciseable under the Convention by a contracting State, or by any authority therein, are to be exercised in the Colony;

(b) for the licensing, inspection, and regulation of aerodromes, for access to aerodromes and places where aircraft have landed, for access to aircraft factories for the purpose of inspecting the work therein carried on, for prohibiting or regulating the use of unlicensed aerodromes, and for the licensing of personnel employed at aerodromes in the inspection or supervision of aircraft;

(c) as to the manner and conditions of the issue and renewal of any certificate or licence required by the Order or by the Conven- tion, including the examination and tests to be undergone, and the form, custody, production, cancellation, suspension, endorsement and surrender of any such certificate or licence;

(d) as to the registration of aircraft in the Colony;

(e) as to the conditions under which aircraft may be used for carrying goods and passengers;

() as to the conditions under which aircraft may pass, or goods or passengers may be conveyed by aircraft, into or from the Colony, or from one part of the Colony to another;

Order or of the (g) exempting from the provisions of the Convention, or any of them, aircraft flown for experimental purposes, or any other aircraft or persons where it appears unnecessary that the same should apply;

(h) prescribing the scales of charges at licensed aerodromes; (i) prescribing the fees to be paid in respect of the grant of any certificate or licence or otherwise for the purposes of the Order or the Convention;

as appears

(j) supplementing the Convention, in such manner necessary or expedient, by regulations designed to promote the safety of aircraft and of persons and property carried therein, and to prevent aircraft endangering other persons and property;

(k) for the control and regulation of aerial lighthouses, and lights at or in the neighbourhood of aerodromes and aerial light- houses, and lights which are liable to endanger aircraft;

(1) regulating the making of signals and other communications by or to aircraft and persons carried therein, and regulating the use of the Royal Air Force ensign, the civil air ensign and any other ensign established by His Majesty in Council for purposes connected with air navigation;

(m) for the imposition of penalties (not exceeding imprisonment for a term of six months and a fine of two hundred pounds) to secure compliance with the Order, and for authorising any steps to be taken for preventing aircraft from flying over prohibited areas or entering the Colony in contravention of the Order which were authorised to be taken in the United Kingdom under section two of the Aerial Navigation Act, 1913, for the purposes of that section.

4. Section 7.--(1) In time of war, whether actual or imminent, or of great national emergency, the Governor may, by order, regulate or prohibit, either absolutely or subject to such conditions as may be contained in the order, the navigation of all or any descriptions of aircraft over the Colony or any portion thereof, or the territorial waters adjacent thereto; and may by order provide for taking possession of and using for the purposes of His Majesty's naval, any military or air forces any aerodrome or landing ground, or

or things found therein or aircraft, machinery, plant, material thereon, and for regulating or prohibiting the use, erection, building, maintenance or establishment of any aerodrome, flying school, or landing ground, or any class or description thereof.

(2) An order under this section may make, for the purposes of the order, such provision as an Order in Council under Part I of the principal Act may make for the purposes of the Order in Council by virtue of paragraph (m) of section three of that Act.