acting in contravention of any directions given under this Article shall be deemed to have acted in contravention of this Order. 64 9B. A person in an aircraft while flying in or over the British Islands shall not take or cause or permit to be taken any photograph of a prohibited area, or of any part thereof, or of any object therein, except with the special permission in writing of the Secretary of State, and subject to any conditions that may be attached to such permission. 9c. A person acting as, or carried in an aircraft for the purpose of acting as, pilot, commander, navigator, engineer, or operative member of the crew thereof, shall not, while so acting or carried, be in a state of intoxication or in a state in which, by reason of his having taken or used any sedative narcotic or stimulant drug or preparation, his capacity so to act is impaired.' 3. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 13 of the principal Order : 13.-(1.) Any person required under this Order to be provided with a licence shall, on demand, produce his licence, and, in the case of a pilot, his pilot's log book for the inspection of any person authorised for the purpose by the Secretary of State or of any police constable. (2.) The owner, hirer and person in charge of any aircraft shall, on demand, produce or cause to be produced, for the inspection of any person authorised for the purpose by the Secretary of State or of any police constable, any certificates or licences relating to the aircraft, any of the prescribed log books, and, in the case of an aircraft engaged in international navigation if it carries passengers or freight, the prescribed list of names and the prescribed bills of lading and manifest respectively." 4. The following paragraph shall be inserted at the end of Article 15 of the principal Order:— (2.) A person shall not wilfully or negligently injure or interfere with any aerial lighthouse established or maintained with the approval of the Secretary of State or any light exhibited from any such lighthouse. 66 5. In Article 22 of the principal Order the words paragraph (1) of Article 4" shall be substituted for the words paragraph (2) of Article 4." 6. In proviso (b) to paragraph (1) of Article 23 of the principal Order, for the words Article 9" there shall be substituted the words Articles 9, 9A, 9B, 9c." 7. The following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (2) of Article 27 of the principal Order :— (2A.) In this Order references to passengers carried for hire or reward include references to passengers carried in [CXVII] D aircraft for the purposes of instruction in flying for which payment is made. 8. The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 4 of Schedule II of the principal Order : 4. If the Secretary of State has reason to believe, on complaint or otherwise, that a passenger or goods aircraft within the British Islands is intended or is about to proceed on any flight while in a condition unfit for flight, he may give such directions and take such steps, by way of provisional detention of the aircraft or otherwise in relation thereto, as may be necessary for the purpose of causing the aircraft to be inspected by authorised representatives of the Secretary of State, and may, upon the result of such inspection, cause the aircraft to be detained until the execution of such alterations or repairs as he may consider necessary to render the aircraft fit for flight." 9. The following amendments shall be made in Schedule IV of the principal Order : (i.) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 14: 14.-(a.) An aircraft wishing to land at night on an aerodrome having a ground control shall, before landing, fire a green pyrotechnical light or flash a green lamp intermittently. In addition, it shall make by international Morse code the letter group forming its call-sign. "(b.) Permission to land will be given by the same callsign from the ground, followed by a green pyrotechnical light, or flashing a green lamp intermittently. (ii.) In paragraph 15 the word "pyrotechnical" shall be substituted for the word Very's." (iii.) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 16: 16. An aircraft compelled to land at night shall, before landing, fire a red pyrotechnical light or make a series of short and intermittent flashes with its navigation lights.' (iv.) In paragraph 17 the word " pyrotechnical "shall be substituted for the word " Very's.' (v.) In paragraph 19 the word " tuted for the word "red." green" shall be substi (vi.) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph 36: 36. At every licensed aerodrome if an aircraft about to land or leave finds it necessary to make a circuit or partial circuit, such circuit or partial circuit shall, except in case of distress, be left-handed (anti-clockwise).” (vii.) In paragraph 46 the words "lights shall be placed on the aerodrome shall be substituted for the words "the signals shall be," and the words "a red light shall indicate a left-hand circuit, and a green light shall indicate a right-hand circuit (see paragraph 36 of this Schedule)" shall be omitted. 10. In paragraph (1) of Schedule VII of the principal Order the following sub-paragraphs shall be omitted: "Orkney Islands. An area enclosed by straight lines joining the following points: Tor Ness, Rora Head, Inga Ness, Mull Head, Old Head. 66 Osea Island.-Three statute miles in all directions from the centre of Osea Island." 11. This Order may be cited as The Air Navigation (Amendment) Order, 1923," and the principal Order and this Order may be cited together as "The Air Navigation Orders, 1922 and 1923." M. P. A. HANKEY. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL providing for the Levy of Fees of like amount for any similar matter or thing done by a Public Officer in Great Britain as are fixed by Order in Council under Section 2 of "The Consular Salaries and Fees Act, 1891."-London, June 26, 1923. (1) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of June, 1923. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. 66 WHEREAS by The Fees (Increase) Act, 1923 " (13 Geo. V, c. 4), His Majesty the King is authorised, by Order in Council, to direct that, where the fees to be charged in respect of any matter or thing done by a Consular Officer have been fixed by Order in Council under Section 2 of "The Consular Salaries and Fees Act, 1891" (54 & 55 Vict., c. 36), (2) fees of like amount shall be charged in respect of any similar matter or thing done by a public officer in Great Britain acting under the authority of a Secretary of State: Now, therefore, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: 1. This Order may be cited as The Foreign Office Fees Order in Council, 1923.' 2. The following fees are hereby established: Matter in respect of which the Fee is to be taken. (1.) For attesting, certifying, legalising or authenticating the signature of any member of His Majesty's Diplomatic or Consular Services £ s. d. 076 (1) "London Gazette," June 29, 1923. [CXVII] D 2 (2.) For attesting, certifying, legalising or authenticating the signature of any of His Majesty's Secretaries of State or principal Officers of the Crown, or of any officer of His Majesty's Civil Services (3.) For attesting, certifying, legalising or authenticating the signature of any member of a foreign diplomatic or consular service 076 (4.) For each signature attested, certified, legalised or authenticated in any document not otherwise provided for (5.) For attesting, certifying, legalising or authenticating a copy of a registration of a birth, death or marriage 0 2 6 (6.) For attesting, certifying, legalising or authenticating each copy of any registration not otherwise provided for ... 026 3. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, or any officer duly authorised by him, shall have power to remit the fees directed by this Order in the following cases : (a.) When the signature, copy of registration or other document is presented to him for certification, legalisation or authentication by a foreign Ambassador, Minister or Chargé d'Affaires accredited to the Court of St. James. (b.) When he is satisfied that the person presenting such signature, copy of registration or other document for certification, legalisation or authentication is in such straightened circumstances that the payment of such fees would constitute a serious hardship. And the Most Honourable George Nathaniel Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G., &c., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein. M. P. A. HANKEY. ACT of the British Parliament to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise), to alter other Duties, to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue (including Excise) and the National Debt, and to make further provision in connection with Finance. [July 18, 1923.] [13 & 14 Geo. V, c. 14.] Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and 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: PART I.-Customs and Excise. 1. The duty of customs payable on tea until the 1st day of August, 1923, under "The Finance Act, 1922,'(1) shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8 of "The Finance Act, 1919 (2) (which relates to imperial preferential rates), continue to be charged, levied and paid until the 1st day of August, 1924, on the importation thereof into Great Britain or Northern Ireland, that is to say: 2.-(1.) There shall, in respect of beer brewed in Great Britain or Northern Ireland on or after the 1st day of April, 1922, be allowed the following rebate from the excise duty payable in respect thereof, that is to say: In the case of beer brewed by a brewer of beer for sale, for every 36 gallons of beer, of whatever original gravity, charged with duty and delivered from the brewery, a rebate of £1, or where the duty payable in respect of 36 gallons of any beer so charged and delivered is less than £2 48., a rebate equal to the amount by which that duty exceeds the sum of £1 48.; In the case of beer brewed by any brewer other than a brewer for sale, for every 36 gallons of worts of a specific gravity of 1,055 degrees charged with duty, a rebate of £1 58.; and so in proportion for any difference in quantity. (2.) The excise drawback payable on the exportation of any beer, or on the deposit thereof in a warehouse for exportation, from Great Britain or Northern Ireland as merchandise or for use as ships' stores, shall, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise that no rebate has been allowed in respect of that beer under this section, be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the rebate allowable under this section in respect thereof. This sub-section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the 1st day of April, 1923. (3.) The Commissioners of Custorns and Excise may make such regulations as they consider necessary for the purpose of carrying this section into effect, and in particular for the purpose of facilitating and controlling the calculation of the amount of the rebate to be allowed under this section (1) Vol. CXVI, page 168. [cxvII] (2) Vol. CXII, page 533. |