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as if this Order were an Act of Parliament and as if the Order revoked by this Order were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.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.

SCHEDULE

• 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

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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