land and the promotion of a comprehensive scheme of afforestation. Finally, I commend to your earnest consideration the industrial problems of the time. That the gifts of leisure and prosperity may be more generally shared throughout the community is my ardent desire. It is your duty, while firmly maintaining security for property and person, to spare no effort in healing the causes of the existing unrest, and I earnestly appeal to you to do all that in you lies to revive and foster a happier and more harmonious spirit in our national industrial life. I pray the Almighty God may vouchsafe His blessing on your labours. ACT of the British Parliament to make temporary provision for the regulation of Air Navigation and for purposes connected therewith. [9 Geo. V, c. 3.] [February 27, 1919.] BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1.-(1.) It shall be lawful for a Secretary of State by order to regulate air navigation over the British Islands and the territorial waters adjacent thereto, and in particular, but without derogating from the generality of the above provision, he may by any such order provide for (a.) The grant, suspension and revocation of licences to pilots and other persons engaged in the navigation of aircraft, especially those used for carrying passengers, goods or mails. (b.) The registration, identification, inspection and certification of aircraft, especially those used for carrying passengers, goods or mails. (c.) The licensing, inspection and regulation of aero dromes. (d.) The conditions under which aircraft may be used for carrying goods, mails and passengers. (e.) The conditions under which goods and mails may be conveyed in aircraft into or from the British Islands or from one of the British Islands to another. (2.) If any person contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions contained in any such order, he shall be guilty of an offence under The Aerial Navigation Act, 1911 ":* Provided that, if proceedings are taken by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for contravention of, or * Vol. CIV, page 206. failure to comply with, any regulation made under paragraph (e), the proceedings shall be deemed to be proceedings for the recovery of a penalty under the enactments relating to customs. (3.) Every order made under this section shall have effect as if enacted in this Act, but, as soon as may be after it is made, it shall be laid before each House of Parliament, and, if an address is presented to His Majesty by either House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order has been so laid, praying that the order or any part thereof may be annulled, His Majesty may annul the order or part thereof, and it shall thenceforth be void without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new order. (4.) The powers conferred by this Act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the powers conferred by "The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913."* 2. The purposes of the Air Council shall include all matters connected with air navigation. 3. (1.) This Act may be cited as "The Air Navigation Act, 1919," and "The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913," and this Act may be cited together as "The Air Navigation Acts, 1911 to 1919. (2.) This Act shall continue in force until the 1st day of January, 1920, and no longer. BRITISH NOTIFICATION of the raising of the Blockade of the Asia Minor, Bulgarian and Greek Coast.-London, February 27, 1919. † Foreign Office, February 27, 1919. THE blockades of the coast of Asia Minor, from latitude 37° 35' north to latitude 40° 5' north, of the Bulgarian coast in the Egean Sea, and of the coast westward from the limit of the latter blockade as far as the mouth of the River Struma, which were announced in notices in the "London Gazette dated respectively the 1st June, 1915, the 16th October, 1915, § and the 20th September, 1916,|| have been raised as from the 21st instant. Vol. CVI, page 5. Vol. CIX, page 267. "London Gazette," February 28, 1919. § Vol. CIX, page 334. Vol. CX, page 282. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915," to the Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia.London, March 28, 1919. * At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of March, WHEREAS by Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915," it is (amongst other things) enacted as follows: "Where His Majesty is satisfied that the law in force in any part of His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom makes due provision for the publication of banus or for the giving of notice in respect of marriages between British subjects intended to be solemnised or contracted in the United Kingdom, and for the recognition of certificates for marriage issued by Superintendent Registrars in England and of certificates for marriage issued by Registrars, and certificates of proclamation of bauns, in Scotland, and of certificates for marriage issued by Registrars in Ireland as sufficient notice in respect of marriages between British subjects intended to be solemnised or contracted in that part of His Majesty's dominions, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare that this section shall apply to that part of his dominions, and in such case: "(a.) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnised or contracted in the United Kingdom between a British subject resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland and a British subject resident in that part of His Majesty's dominions, a certificate of the publication of banns or a certificate of notice of marriage issued in accordance with such law shall in England have the same effect as a certificate for marriage issued by a Superintendent Registrar, and in Scotland and Ireland have the same effect as a certificate for marriage issued by a Registrar in Scotland and Ireland respectively; and ‘(b.) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnised or contracted in that part of His Majesty's dominions between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, a certificate for marriage may be issued in England by a Superintendent Registrar, or in Scotland or Ireland by a Registrar, in the like manner as if the marriage was to be solemnised or + Vol. CIX, page * "London Gazette," April 1, 1919. 4. contracted under circumstances requiring the issue of such a certificate, and as if both such British subjects were resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, as the case may be: And whereas by Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Amendment Act, 1916,"* it is enacted as follows: "If His Majesty is satisfied that, for the purposes of a marriage to be solemnised or contracted in any part of his dominions outside the United Kingdom between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, no notice of the marriage is, under the law in force in that part of his dominions, required on the part of the person resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare that Section 1 of The Marriage of British Subjects Facilities) Act, 1915," shall apply to that part of his dominions, notwithstanding that the law in force in that part does not make provision for the recognition of certificates for marriage issued in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of certificates of proclamation of banns issued in Scotland, as sufficient notice in respect of such marriages as aforesaid, provided that the other conditions required by that section. are fulfilled: And whereas by Section 2 of the first hereinbefore recited Act it is enacted that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, extend the said Act to any British Protectorate, and on the making of any such Order the said Act shall, subject to the provisions of the Order, have effect as if the Protectorate were part of His Majesty's dominions: And whereas His Majesty is satisfied that, for the purposes of a marriage to be solemnised or contracted in the British Protectorate hereinafter mentioned between a British subject resident therein and a British subject resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, no notice of the marriage is under the law in force in that Protectorate required on the part of the person resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, and that under the said law the other conditions required by the hereinbefore recited Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915," are fulfilled : Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Acts in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915,' shall apply to the British Protectorate hereunder mentioned: Northern Rhodesia. * Vol. CX, page 51. And the Right Honourable Viscount Milner, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. ALMERIC FITZROY. BRITISH ORDER revoking certain Orders and Regulations under The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913."London, April 30, 1919.* IN pursuance of the powers conferred on me by The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913," I hereby revoke the following Orders and Regulations, without prejudice to any pending proceedings thereunder : (1.) The Orders dated March 1, 1913, † under "The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1913, No. 228)."' (2.) The Regulations dated March 1, 1913,‡ as to the Signals to be made and Action to be taken under Section 2 of "The Aerial Navigation Act, 1913 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1913, No. 243)." (3.) The Order dated September 22, 1913, under "The Aerial Navigation Act, 1911 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1913, No. 1090).' (4.) The Orders dated May 25, 1914,§ under "The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1914, No. 725)." (5.) The Regulations dated May 25, 1914, as to the Signals to be made and Action to be taken under Section 2 of The Aerial Navigation Act, 1913 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1914, No. 726)." (6.) The Order dated August 2, 1914, ¶under "The Aerial Navigation Acts, 1911 and 1913 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1914, No. 1117)." Home Office, Whitehall, April 30, 1919. EDWARD SHORTT, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. BRITISH ORDER making Regulations under "The Air Navigation Acts, 1911 to 1919."-London, April 30, 1919.* The In pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by Air Navigation Acts, 1911 †† to 1919,"‡‡ and all other powers 'London Gazette," May 6, 1919. + Vol. CVI, page 646. Vol. CVIII, page 66. Vol. CVI, page 658. **"London Gazette," April 29, 1919 (4th Supplement). tt Vol. CIV, page 206. |