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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 26, 1940.

Amendment

of Article 27.

Amendment

of Schedule IV.

(iii) shall in any case where the special permission in writing of the Governor given under paragraph (1) of this Article is necessary for the carriage, attach such permission to the air consignment note:

Provided that :-

(a) Sub-paragraph (ii) of this paragraph in so far as it requires the air consignment note to be coloured red or to bear the words 'dangerous goods in prominent red letters shall not apply to the case of the carriage of safety cartridges in accordance with proviso (a) to paragraph (1) of this Article, and

(b) This paragraph shall not apply to the carriage of equipment or other articles in accordance with proviso (b) to paragraph (1) of this Article.

(3) In cases to which paragraph (2) of this Article applies and not within proviso (a) to that paragraph the carrier shall notify the person in charge of the aircraft of the nature, weight and quantity of the goods at or before the time of sending such goods to be carried or taken on board the aircraft.

(4) In this Article the expression-

'Dangerous goods' means any explosive substance and any other goods (whether explosive or not) which by reason of their nature are liable to endanger the safety of the aircraft or persons on board the aircraft;

'Safety cartridges' means cartridges for small arms of which the case can be extracted from the small arm after firing and which are so closed as to prevent any explosion in one cartridge being communicated to other cartridges.

(5) The provisions of this Article shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of Article 19 of this Order."

4. The proviso to paragraph (1) of Article 27 of the principal Order shall be amended by inserting the words flown by a civilian pilot for the purpose of any test or after the words military aircraft'

5. In Schedule IV to the principal Order the following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraphs 20, 21 and 29 respectively:

"20. To require an aircraft to land, the following signals shall be used :-

By day and by night, a series of projectiles discharged at intervals of 10 seconds, each showing on bursting green lights or stars;

In addition, if it is necesasry to distinguish amongst several the aircraft which is to land, a continuous white luminous beam shall be directed at that aircraft:

Provided that, when the authority who desires to give the order to land is able to establish radicelectric communica- tion with the aircraft, this order may be given by using the means of communication established."

"21. To warn an aircraft that it is in the vicinity of a prohibited area (including areas flight over which is tem- porarily prohibited or restricted) and should change its course, the following signals shall be used:-