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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 26, 1940.

Amendment

of Article 14.

Now, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Him by the Air Navigation Acts, 1920 and 1936, and the Colonial Air Navigation (Application of Acts) Order, 1937 and 1938, and otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:--

1. Article 10 of the principal Order shall be amended as follows, that is to say:-

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

"provided that this prohibition shall not apply--

(i) in a case where any such concourse is assembled for the purpose of witnessing an event which consists wholly or principally of an aircraft race or contest or exhibition of flying, to an aircraft taking part in such race, contest or exhibition or engaged in a flight arranged by or made with the written approval of the organizers of the event as part of the entertainment afforded in connexion therewith;

(ii) to an aircraft which is being used for police pur- poses;

(iii) to an aircraft arriving at or departing from a licensed aerodrome if flying over or in the immediate vicinity of any such place as aforesaid is necessary for the purpose of effecting such arrival or departure; or

(iv) to an aircraft passing from place to place in the ordinary course of navigation and flying at a reasonable height.'

(b) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (8):—

"(8) In every flying machine registered in the Colony and carrying passengers for hire or reward or, in a case where the carriage is effected by an air transport undertaking, whether for hire or reward or not-

(a) every means of exit from the aircraft and from every passenger compartment therein shall be kept free from any obstruction and no such means of exit shall be so fastened by locking or otherwise as to hinder the immediate use thereof in an emergency; and

(b) the position of every such means of exit which is specially provided for use in an emergency shall be clearly marked and in each case the method of operation shall be indicated."

(c) The following paragraph shall be inserted after para- graph (8):--

(9) The Governor may, for the purpose of promoting the safety of aircraft, make regulations as to special signals and other communications to be made by or to an aircraft, aircraft as to the course on which and the height at which an shall fly and as to any other precautions to be observed in relation to the navigation and control of aircraft which the Governor may consider expedient for the purpose aforesaid and no aircraft shall fly in contravention of any such regulations."

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