TITLE XVII-POLICE AND PROCEDURES Article 199. Control of the air space, of airports, and of other places pertaining to aviation within the whole territory of the republic of Argentina shall be exercised by the aviation authority, with the exception of the security and judicial police which shall be in charge of the national police forces in existence. Article 200. The organization and operation of the aviation police shall be established by a law to be enacted for that purpose. Article 201. Whenever a violation of this Code has been shown or an aircraft has caused an injury, the competent authority shall set forth the details before witnesses, with an itemized statement of the event, of the persons who caused it and of the persons who were injured, and of any other element giving rise to a legal action and it shall present its report to the proper judicial or administrative authority. Only when there is a criminal offense may members of the crew of an aircraft be detained, and in such case an immediate replacement shall be obtained and, in so far as possible, interruption of the flight shall be avoided. Article 202. When a crime or violation is committed during a flight, the commander or the person exercising his function shall take the necessary measures to secure the person committing the crime or violation and to deliver such person to the proper authorities at the first airport of landing with a detailed report of the act and a list of the persons who witnessed it. Article 203. The personnel appointed or especially designated for that purpose by the aviation authorities or by the customs shall enforce compliance with the provisions of this Code that are their responsibility. Article 204. The judicial authorities, the police or other proper authority shall seize any article mentioned in Articles 7 and 8 when it is found on board an aircraft without the required special authorization; if the attachment is made final, the article shall be delivered to the aviation authority. Article 205. The money received from any fine provided for in this Code shall be transferred to a fund for the development of civil aviation. TITLE XVIII-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Article 206. The Executive shall promote the development of aerial sports by means of financial subsidies, materials, and other aids to organizations set up in the manner established in the regulations and that have the object of practicing air flight, establishing flight schools, constructing airports and rendering other specified services. Article 207. Organizations for aerial sports shall incorporate and meet the other requirements of the regulations. Aircraft engaged in sports activities may be exempted from carrying either all or some of the flight papers required by this Code. Article 208. Whenever an aviation accident occurs, the aviation authority shall make an inquiry into the causes thereof, shall take the measures necessary to prevent its recurrence and shall impose the penalties which the case may call for. Foreign private aircraft sustaining accidents over Argentine territory and private Argentine aircraft sustaining accidents over foreign territory, shall be subject to the technical inspection provided for by the terms of international agreements. Article 209. Any citizen learning of the whereabouts of the remains or wreckage of an aircraft shall inform the authorities within ten days. Failure to do so shall make him subject to the provisions of Article 190. Article 210. When an aircraft disappears, or when no information concerning it is available, it shall be deemed lost three months from the date when the last communication was received from it. Persons on board the aircraft shall be presumed dead at the end of six months from the date when the event took place or could have taken place. Article 211. All provisions of law and all regulations which are in conflict with this Code are hereby repealed. QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS AGREEMENT. No. 75 of 1946. An Act to authorize the execution of an Agreement for the Purchase by the Commonwealth of certain shares in Qantas Empire Airways Limited, and to appropriate the Moneys necessary for the purchase of those shares. BE [Assented to 14th December, 1946.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows::- 1. This Act may be cited as the Qantas Empire Airways Agreement Short title. Act 1946. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it Commencement. receives the Royal Assent. of agreement. 3. The execution on behalf of the Commonwealth is hereby Authorization authorized of an agreement between the Government of the Commonwealth and the Government of the United Kingdom and any other necessary party for or in connexion with the purchase by the Commonwealth of the shares held by British Overseas Airways Corporation in Qantas Empire Airways Limited. Price of shares. 4. The agreement authorized by this Act may fix the price for the purchase of the shares or may provide for the determination of the price by arbitration. Appropriation. 5. Any payment by the Commonwealth required by the agreement authorized by this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund which, to the necessary extent, is hereby appropriated accordingly. AIR NAVIGATION ACT 1920-1950.* BE An Act relating to Air Navigation. E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:-- 1. This Act may be cited as the Air Navigation Act 1920-1950 2. This Act shall commence in relation to the several States and Territories on such days as are respectively fixed by Proclamation.† 3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears- 3A. The ratification on behalf of Australia of the Chicago Convention is approved. The Air Navigation Act 1920-1950 comprises the Air Navigation Act 1920, as amended. Particulars of the Principal Act and of the amending Acts are set out in the following table : (a) in relation to the several States and Territories-28th March, 1921 (see Gazette 1921, p. 480); (c) in relation to the Australian Antarctic Territory-19th April, 1956 (see Gazette 1956, p. 1068). "6. Section four of the Principal Act as amended by this Act shall cease to have effect as at midnight on the ninth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven and shall be deemed to be repealed as at that time.". |