Licensed Aerodromes (Sch. VII.-II. (c) ).

46. Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any aircraft, or the owner or personnel thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look-out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of the air, or by the special circumstances of the case.

47. Nothing in these rules shall interfere with the operation of any special rule or rules duly made and published relative to navigation of aircraft in the immediate vicinity of any aerodrome or other place, and it shall be obligatory on all owners and personnel of aircraft to obey such rules.

Schedule VIII.

RULES AS TO AIRCRAFT ARRIVING IN Or Departing from the UNITED KINGDOM.

Preliminary.

1. (1) For the purposes of the rules in this schedule the following aerodromes are appointed aerodromes, that is to say:

NEW HOLLAND, Lincolnshire;

HADLEIGH, Suffolk;
LYMPNE, Kent;

HOUNSLOW, Middlesex.

Provided that the Secretary of State may by directions add any aerodrome to the list of appointed aerodromes or remove any aerodrome from that list.

(2) For the purposes of the rules in this schedule

"Importer" has the same meaning as in the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876;

"Commissioners

Excise;

means Commissioners of Customs and

"Examination station "

means a space at an appointed

aerodrome approved by the Commissioners as an examination station;

"Pilot" includes person in charge.

Other expressions have the same meaning as in the general provisions of these regulations.

Arrival at and Departure from Appointed Aerodromes.

2. No aircraft entering the United Kingdom from abroad shall land for the first time in the United Kingdom except at an appointed aerodrome: Provided that this rule shall not apply where an aircraft is compelled to land before arriving at an appointed aerodrome, owing to accident, stress of weather, or unavoidable cause, in which event the procedure laid down in rule 21 (hereafter) will be followed.

3. No aircraft shall fly to a place outside the United Kingdom unless it has departed from an appointed aerodrome.

4. (1) No person in any aircraft entering the United Kingdom shall carry or allow to be carried in the aircraft

(a) any goods the importation of which is prohibited by the laws relating to Customs;

(b) any mails, except with the permission in writing of the

Postmaster-General.

(2) No person in any aircraft entering the United Kingdom shall break or alter any seal placed upon any part of the aircraft or upon any goods therein by a Customs officer at the aerodrome at which he departed for the United Kingdom.

5. No aircraft shall enter or leave the United Kingdom, having any secret or disguised place adapted for concealing goods.

from, U.K. (Sch. VIII.).

6. The pilot of any aircraft arriving at an appointed aerodrome from a place outside the United Kingdom shall, on landing, forthwith take his aircraft to the examination station at that aerodrome; provided that a pilot shall not be deemed to have contravened or failed to comply with this rule if he proves that circumstances over which he had no control prevented him taking his aircraft to the examination station, and that, after the report required by rule 7 (hereunder) had been duly made by him, all goods carried in the said aircraft were removed to the examination station in the presence of an officer of Customs and Excise or some person duly authorised by the Secretary of State.

7. Within twenty-four hours after the landing at any appointed aerodrome of an aircraft from a place outside the United Kingdom the pilot shall

(a) make a report to the proper officer of Customs and Excise in the form prescribed by the Commissioners; and

(b) truly furnish the several particulars required by such form; and

(c) deliver to such officer with such report his log book, manifest, and declaration of the goods on board his aircraft signed by the proper customs officer at the aerodrome from which he departed for the United Kingdom; and

(d) land at such aerodrome for examination of baggage all passengers carried in such aircraft, and, after making such report, shall produce, and, if required to do so, shall land, all goods in such aircraft for examination. 8. If at any aerodrome or other place within the United Kingdom goods or passengers are loaded for conveyance by air to an appointed aerodrome, the pilot shall obtain from the proprietor of the aerodrome of departure a certificate of departure in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and the Commissioners, and on arriving at the appointed aerodrome the aircraft, and all goods and passengers carried therein, shall, on production of such certificate, be exempt from inspection by an officer of Customs and Excise, unless such officer has reason to suspect that the aircraft has, since the issue of such certificate, called at a place outside the United Kingdom.

9. The pilot of every aircraft in which goods are to be exported shall, before any goods be taken on board, deliver to the proper officer of Customs and Excise a notice of departure for a foreign destination in the form prescribed by the Commissioners, in which shall be truly stated the particulars required by such form.

10. (1) Every pilot of an aircraft carrying goods to any place outside(a) the United Kingdom shall deliver to the proper officer of

(a) AMENDMENT.-S.R. & O., 1920, No. 333, issued whilst this Volume was in the press, substitutes "departing from " for the italicised words.

Customs and Excise at an appointed aerodrome, together with any log books belonging to the aircraft, an application for clearance from that aerodrome in the form prescribed by the Commissioners, in duplicate, and also if the aircraft carries any goods a manifest and declaration in the form prescribed by the Commissioners, declaring the goods and stores on such aircraft, and shall truly state therein the particulars required by such forms respectively; and such forms, when signed by such officer, shall be the clearance and authority for the aircraft to proceed to its foreign destination.

(2) No pilot shall depart in any such (a) aircraft from the United Kingdom until he has obtained such authority, or shall, after obtaining such authority, call at any other place in the United Kingdom before proceeding to his foreign destination. Any pilot intending to land at one or more appointed aerodromes before proceeding to his foreign destination shall apply for the said clearance and authority at the last appointed aerodrome at which he lands.

Importation, Entry, and Unloading of Goods.

11. No person importing goods in an aircraft shall bring the goods into any place in the United Kingdom other than an appointed aerodrome, or shall unload the goods from any aircraft except at an examination station (unless such goods are unloaded in the presence of an officer of the Customs and Excise under 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.

(a) AMENDMENT.-S.R. & O., 1920, No. 333, issued whilst this Volume was in the press, directs the omission of the word "such."

to Aircraft Arriving in, or Departing from, U.K. (Sch. VIII.).

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, anu 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 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 these 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.