Statutory Instruments
CIVIL AVIATION
Made
11th May 1977
Laid before Parliament
19th May 1977
Coming into Operation
9th June 1977
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of May 1977
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 53 of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Aircraft (Exemption from Seizure on Patent Claims) Order 1977 and shall come into operation on 9th June 1977.
2.-(1) The Aircraft (Exemption from Seizure on Patent Claims) Order 1972(1) is hereby revoked.
(2) 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as if this Order were an Act of Parliament and as if the Order revoked by this Order were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.
3. The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the purposes of the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
4. It is hereby declared for the purpose of section 53(3)(a) of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 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.
N. E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council
Algeria
Arab Republic of Egypt
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Barbados
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Empire
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Congo (People's Republic)
Costa Rica
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Federal Republic of Germany
Finland
France
Gabon
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungarian People's Republic
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lebanon
Liberia
Libyan Arab Republic
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta, G.C.
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippine Republic
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Cyprus
Republic of Ireland
Republic of Korea
Republic of Sri Lanka
Republic of Vietnam
Republic of Zaire
Romania
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Somali Democratic Republic
South Africa
Spain
Surinam
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Upper Volta
Uruguay
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Zambia
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 their 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 Locsrction 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 1972 and re-enacts it, with the addition of the following to the list of countries entitled to the benefit of those provisions:-
Bahamas
Nauru
Surinam
and with the removal of the following from the list:-
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
(1972 II, p. 3013).