Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 51.djvu/329

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327 IRISH FREE STATE-AIR NAVIGATION- SPtember 29,1937 November 4, 1937 The Parties to this arrangement reserve respectively the right, for reasons of safety, to issue regulations relative to the obligatory equipment of aircraft with wireless apparatus. ARTICLE 11. No arms of war, explosives of war, or munitions of war shall be carried by aircraft of either Party in or above the territory of the other Party or by the crew or passengers except by permission of the competent authorities of the territory within whose air space the aircraft is navigating. ARTICLE 12. Upon the departure or landing of any aircraft each Party may within its own territory and through its competent authorities search the aircraft of the other Party and examine the certificates and other documents prescribed. ARTICLE 13. Aerodromes open to public air traffic in the territory of one of the Parties to this arrangement shall in so far as they are under the control of the Party in whose territory they are situated be open to all aircraft of the other Party, which shall also be entitled to the assistance of the meteorological services, the wireless services, the lighting services and the day and night signalling services, in so far as the several classes of services are under the control of the Party in whose territory they respectively are rendered. Any scale of charges made, namely, landing, accommodation or other charge, with respect to the aircraft of each Party in the territory of the other Party, shall in so far as such charges are under the control of the Party in whose territory they are made be the same for the air- craft of both Parties. ARnTCEi 14. All aircraft entering or leaving the territory of either of the Parties to this arrangement shall land at or depart from an aero- drome open to public air traffic and classed as a customs aerodrome at which facilities exist for enforcement of customs, passport, quaran- tine and immigration regulations and clearance of aircraft, and no intermediate landing shall be effected between the frontier and the aerodrome. In special cases the competent authorities may allow aircraft to land at or depart from other aerodromes, at which the above-mentioned facilities have been arranged. The prohibition of any intermediate landing applies also in such cases. In the event of a forced landing or of a landing as provided in Article 7 not at an aerodrome of the class mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, the pilot of the aircraft, its crew and the passengers shall conform to the customs, passport, quarantine and immigration regulations in force in the territory in which the landing has been made. The'Parties to this arrangement shall exchange lists of the aero- dromes in their territories designated by them as customs aerodromes. AIrICLE 15. Each of the Parties to this arrangement reserves the right to re- quire that all aircraft crossing the frontiers of its territory shall do