the provisions of rule 6 above), and shall not unload the goods except between such hours as the Commissioners prescribe, or remove the goods from an examination station unless the goods have first been duly entered in manner provided by these rules and produced to the proper officer of Customs and Excise and duly cleared by him.

12. No person shall remove from any aircraft any goods imported therein until the report required by rule 7 (above) has been made, and the authority of the proper officer of Customs and Excise has been obtained.

13. The importer of any goods imported in aircraft shall deliver to the collector of Customs and Excise in whose district the aerodrome of importation is situated an entry of such goods in accordance with the provisions of the Customs Acts, and shall truly furnish thereon the several particulars required by the form of entry, and shall pay to such collector all duties chargeable thereon at the times and in the manner prescribed by the said Acts; provided that no entry shall be required in respect of diamonds or bullion or the baggage of passengers.

14. All goods imported into an appointed aerodrome in any aircraft shall be duly entered and unladen within seven days from the time of the arrival of such aircraft at that aerodrome or within such further period as the Commissioners may allow.

15. All goods imported in aircraft which have not been examined and cleared by the proper officer of Customs and Excise shall be stored in a transit shed at the appointed aerodrome, and no person shall remove such goods from the transit shed before examination and clearance by such officer.

Exportation of Goods.

16.—(1.) The exporter of any goods intended for exportation in aircraft shall deliver to the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the appointed aerodrome from which such aircraft is cleared to its foreign destination, an entry in the form prescribed by the Commissioners, and shall truly state in such form the particulars hereby required; and such form when signed by the proper officer of Customs and Excise shall be the clearance and authority for the exportation of such goods.

(2.) No person shall export goods on such aircraft until such authority has been given by the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

17. No person shall without the consent of the proper officer of Customs and Excise unload from any aircraft any goods loaded thereon for exportation which have been cleared under rule 16 above, or open, alter, or break any lock or mark or seal placed by any officer of Customs and Excise on any goods in any aircraft about to depart from the United Kingdom.

General Provisions.

18. No person shall make any signal to or from an aircraft entering or leaving the United Kingdom except such signals as are authorised by these regulations; provided that no offence

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shall be deemed to be committed under this rule if the person making such signal proves that the signal was not given for the purpose of evading or of assisting any person in evading thes rules.

19. If any officer of Customs and Excise in the execution of his duty boards any aircraft in any place, the pilot thereof shall not convey him in the aircraft away from such place without his consent.

20. No dutiable goods shall be removed in aircraft from the Isle of Man to Great Britain or Ireland except from an appointed aerodrome and with the consent of the proper officer of Customs and Excise.

21. If any aircraft arriving from a place outside the United Kingdom shall land in any place other than an appointed aerodrome, 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-books 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, and the proprietor of the aerodrome shall forthwith report the arrival of the aircraft to an officer of Customs and Excise, and shall not allow any goods to be unloaded therefrom or any passenger thereof to leave the aerodrome without the consent of such officer.

22.—(1.) The proprietor of any aerodrome shall at all times permit any officer of Customs and Excise to enter and inspect his aerodrome and all buildings and goods thereon.

(2.) The pilot of any aircraft shall permit any officer of Customs and Excise at any time to board and inspect his aircraft and any goods laden thereon.

(3.) The importer or exporter of any goods imported or exported in aircraft shall produce such goods to the proper officer of Customs and Excise at the aerodrome of importation or exportation, as the case may be, and permit him to inspect such goods.

23. Any provisions for the time being in force of the Aliens Restriction Order or of the Defence of the Realm Regulations with respect to persons arriving in or departing from the United Kingdom by sea 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, and in particular with the substitution of appointed aerodrome for the approved ports specified in the Aliens Restriction Order.

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24. All persons importing or exporting or concerned in importing or exporting goods, mails, or passengers, into or from the United Kingdom in aircraft and all pilots of aircraft arriving in or departing from the United Kingdom shall observe and comply with the provisions of Sections 53, 76, 102, 104 and 118 of The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876," as if any references in such provisions to ships or vessels and the masters or captains

thereof, and to the loading or unloading of goods thereon and therefrom, included references to aircraft and the pilots thereof, and to the loading or unloading of goods thereon or therefrom, and as if references in such provisions to a quay included a reference to an examination station.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying "The Colonial Probates Act, 1892," to the Colony of the Bermudas or Somers Islands.-London, May 8, 1919.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 8th day of May,

1919.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Chancellor of the Duchy Lord Colebrook.

of Lancaster.

Lord Southborough.

Lord Steward.

WHEREAS by Section 1 of

The Colonial Probates Act, 1892."'* it was enacted as follows:"Her Majesty the Queen may, on being satisfied that the Legislature of any British Possession has made adequate provision for the recognition in that Possession of all probates and letters of administration granted by the Courts of the United Kingdom, direct, by Order in Council, that this Act shall, subject to any exceptions and modifications specified in the Order, apply to that Possession, and thereupon, while the Order is in force, this Act shall apply accordingly ";

And whereas His Majesty the King is satisfied that the Legislature of the British Possession hereinafter mentioned has made adequate provision for the recognition in that Possession of probates and letters of administration granted by the Courts of the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his most Honourable Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

"The Colonial Probates Act, 1892," shall apply to the British Possession hereunder mentioned:

The Colony of the Bermudas or Somers Islands.

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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 NOTIFICATION of the Denunciation by Greece of the Treaty of November 10, 1886, Agreement of March 28, 1890, and subsequent Declarations, regulating Commercial Relations between Great Britain and Greece. --London, June 16, 1919.*

Foreign Office, June 16, 1919. His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has received from the Greek Minister in London a communication dated the 3rd March, 1919, giving notice of denunciation by the Greek Government, as from that date, of the following Treaty, Agreement, and Declarations, regulating the commercial relations between Great Britain and Greece, which provide for termination a year after notice of denunciation shall have been given by either of the High Contracting Parties:

Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, the 10th November. 1886.t

Commercial Agreement, the 28th March, 1890.‡

Declaration correcting error in annex to Commercial Agreement, the 28th March, 1890, the 16th June, 1890.S Declaration, Commercial Matters, modifying previou Agreements, the 23rd November, 1904. ||

Supplementary Declaration, amending annex to Declar tion, the 23rd November, 1904, the 17th May, 1905.

These Treaty instruments will accordingly terminate the 3rd March, 1920.

2. In giving notice of the denunciation of the above Co ventions the Greek Government intimate their readiness renew the above-mentioned Conventions tacitly for succ sive periods of three months, so that, failing three month final notice being given on the 3rd March, 1920, they remain in force until the 3rd June, 1920, and failing no on this last date named they will remain in force until 3rd September, 1920, and so forth. This proposal has be accepted by His Majesty's Government.

* "London Gazette," June 17, 1919. Vol. LXXXII, page 11.

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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL further postponing the coming into operation of The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914."-London, June 25, 1919.*

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of June, 1919.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1914, an interLational Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention;

And whereas a Statute 4 and 5 Geo. V, c. 50, intituled "An Act to make such amendments of the Law relating to Merchant Shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea" (being the Convention above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914 ";‡

And whereas by Section 29, sub-section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:

"This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1915:

"Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, rom time to time postpone the coming into operation of this ict for such period, not exceeding on any occasion of postonement one year, as may be specified in the Order ";

And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into peration of the said Act has been from time to time postoned, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in ouncil of the 18th day of December, 1918, § until the 1st ay of July, 1919;

And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the ovisions of the said Act should be further postponed:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of s Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers vested in him the above-recited provision, and of all other powers him ereunto enabling, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, at the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) t, 1914," shall be postponed from coming into operation til the 1st day of January, 1920.