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AIRCRAFT (EXEMPTION FROM SEIZURE ON PATENT CLAIMS) ORDER, 1966

1966 No. 188.

Made............................................... 24th February, 1966 Laid before Parliament........................ 2nd March, 1966 Coming into Operation......................... 9th March, 1966

At the Court of Saint James, the 24th day of February, 1966

Present, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Lord President Mr. Secretary Griffiths Mr. Secretary Healy Sir Elwyn Jones

Whereas Her Majesty, in pursuance of the Regency Acts 1937 to 1953, was pleased, by Letters Patent dated the twenty-fifth day of January, 1966, to delegate to the following Counsellors of State (subject to the exceptions hereinafter mentioned) or any two or more of them, that is to say, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester and His Royal Highness Prince Richard of Gloucester, full power and authority during the period of Her Majesty’s absence from the United Kingdom to summon and hold on Her Majesty’s behalf Her Privy Council and to signify thereat Her Majesty’s approval for anything for which Her Majesty’s approval in Council is required:

And whereas Her Majesty was further pleased to except from the number of the said Counsellors of State His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edin- burgh, Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester and His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester while absent from the United Kingdom:

S.I. 69/1966

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Now, therefore, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, being authorised thereto by the said Letters Patent, and in pursuance of the powers conferred on Her Majesty by section 53 of the Civil Aviation Act, 1949 1 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and of all other powers in that behalf, do hereby, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council, on Her Majesty’s behalf order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows —

1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Aircraft (Exemption from Seizure on Patent Claims) Order, 1966 and shall come into operation on 9th March, 1966.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889 2 shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

(3) Section 38(2) of the Interpretation Act, 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals) shall apply to this Order as if this Order were an Act of Parliament and as if the Order revoked by Article 4 of this Order were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.

2. It is hereby declared for the purpose of section 53(3) (a) of the Act that the benefits of those provisions of the Convention on International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on 7th December, 1944 to which the said section 53 relates apply to the countries or territories named in the Schedule to this Order.

3. Aircraft registered in the Hungarian People’s Republic are hereby specified for the purposes of section 53(3)(b) of the Act as other aircraft to which the said section 53 applies.

4. The Aircraft (Exemption from Seizure on Patent Claims) Order 1964 3 is hereby revoked.

W. G. Agnew.

1 12, 13, & 14 Geo. 6. c. 67. 2 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63 3 S.I. 1964/56 (1964 I, p. 87)

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SCHEDULE Argentina Liberia Australia Libya Austria Luxembourg Belgium Malagasy Republic Bolivia Malaysia Brazil Malta, G.C. Burma Mauritania Cambodia Mexico Cameroon Morocco Canada Nepal Central African Republic Netherlands Ceylon New Zealand Chad Nicaragua Chile Niger Colombia Nigeria Congo (Brazzaville) Norway Costa Rica Pakistan Cuba Panama Czechoslovakia Paraguay Dahomey Peru Denmark Philippine Republic Dominican Republic Poland Ecuador Portugal El Salvador Republic of Cyprus Federal Republic of Germany Republic of Ireland Finland Republic of Korea France Republic of Vietnam Gabon Rumania Ghana Senegal Greece Sierra Leone Guatemala South Africa Guinea Spain Haiti Sweden Honduras Switzerland Iceland Syrian Arab Republic India Thailand Indonesia Trinidad and Tobago Iran Tunisia Iraq Turkey Israel United Arab Republic Italy United Republic of Tanzania Ivory Coast United States of America

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Jamaica Upper Volta Japan Uruguay Jordan Venezuela Kenya Yugoslavia Laos Zambia Lebanon

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Order.) Section 53 of the Civil Aviation Act, 1949 exempts aircraft

to which the section applies, and parts of such aircraft, from seizure on patent claims by reason of the lawful entry into, or lawful transit across, the United Kingdom, and provides that the section applies to aircraft registered in any country or territory in the case of which there is in force a declaration made by Order in Council that the benefits of those provisions of the Chicago Convention of 1944 to which the section relates apply to that country or territory, and to such other aircraft as may be specified by Order in Council.

This Order revokes the Aircraft (Exemption from Seizure on Patent Claims) Order, 1964 and re-enacts it, with the addition of the following to the list of countries entitled to the benefits of those provisions: Cameroun Malta, G.C. Central African Republic Mauritania Chad Nepal Dahomey Niger Gabon Rumania Guinea Senegal Ivory Coast Tanzania Kenya Upper Volta Malagasy Republic Zambia