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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 17, 1937.
Arrival and departure from the Colony,
(b) in the case of radio telephony, of the whole or part of the name of the owner of the aircraft followed by the last two letters of the complete call sign of five letters:
Provided also that nothing in this paragraph shall affect the special rules as to signals laid down in Section II of the Fourth Schedule to this Order.
(2) A person in an aircraft or on an aerodrome shall not make any signal prescribed by this Order except for the purposes specified therein, and shall not knowingly make, without lawful authority or excuse (proof whereof shall lie on the accused), any naval, military or air-force signal.
(3) An aircraft other than a State aircraft shall not bear any mark or sign used or appropriated for use by State air- craft.
23.-(1) The Governor may prescribe points between which aircraft when entering the Colony from abroad or leaving the Colony for abroad shall pass.
(2) If such points are for the time being so prescribed, no aircraft shall enter the Colony from abroad or leave the Colony for abroad except between such points:
Provided that----
(a) if an aircraft is compelled by accident, stress of weather, or unavoidable cause to enter the Colony from abroad elsewhere than between such points it shall land at the Customs aerodrome, if any, in the Colony nearest to its route; and
(b) if an aircraft arriving from a place outside the Colony shall land in any place other than a Customs aero- drome, the pilot shall forthwith report to an Officer of Customs and Excise or police constable and shall on demand produce to such officer or police constable the 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 Excise and no passenger thereof shall leave the immediate vicinity without the consent of an Officer of Customs and Excise or police constable. 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 Excise and shall not allow any goods to be unloaded there- from or any passenger thereof to leave the aerodrome without the consent of such officer.
(3) Any enactments for the time being in force restricting the landing of aliens or any orders made thereunder with respect to persons arriving in or departing from the Colony shall apply to persons arriving or departing by air as if the same were herein set out, with such modifications as are necessary for adapting them to such purpose.
(4) The Governor shall make such regulations for the application of the law relating to Customs to aircraft arriving in or departing from the Colony as may be necessary and not inconsistent with the Convention.
** As amended by 0. in C. of 25.10.35 (G. N. 114 of 1936) in force 1.1.36.
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