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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 14, 1938.

1. Article 10 of the principal Order shall be amended

as follows, that is to say:

(a) In paragraph (2) thereof the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (b):-

(b) fly over or in the immediate vicinity of any place where a large concourse of the public is assembled in the open air in connection with any event of public interest except with the consent in writing of the Governor and of the organizers if any of the event: provided that this pro- hibition shall not apply to an aircraft which is being used for police purposes or to an aircraft passing from place to place in the ordinary course of navigation and flying at a reasonable height; or"

(b) In paragraph (8) thereof after the words "In every flying machine there shall be inserted the words "registered in the Colony and ".

2. Article 11 of the principal Order shall be amended as follows, that is to say:-

The words to be a cause of danger to any person or property on land or water or in the air shall be substituted for the words "to be a cause of danger to persons in the aircraft or to persons or property on the ground

3. In paragraph (1) of Article 21 of the principal Order the following two sub-paragraphs shall be substituted for sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c):-

(a) which, being in the neighbourhood of an aero- drome, is liable by reason of its glare to endanger aircraft arriving at or departing from the aerodrome; or

(b) which, by reason of its liability to be mistaken for a light proceeding from an aerial lighthouse or for a light or part of a system of lights prescribed for display at or near an aerodrome or for marking an obstruction to air navigation, is liable to endanger aircraft;

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4. In the third sub-paragraph of paragraph (2) of Article reward" there 31 of the principal Order after the word shall be inserted the words "do not include references to any person when being carried within the Colony in an aircraft owned by a member of any of His Majesty's Forces or Civil Service where no payment is made to the owner in respect of such carriage otherwise than by way of an allowance payable under Regulations applicable to him as such member; but ".

5.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation (Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories) (Amend- ment) (No. 2) Order, 1937.

(2) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1938.

M. P. A. Hankey.