59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION-DEC. 7 , 1944 ARTICLE XV DEFINITIONS For the purpose of this Agreement the expression: (a) "Air service" means any scheduled air service performed by aircraft for the public transport of passengers, mail or cargo. (b) "International air service" means an air service which passes through the airspace over the territory of more than one State. (c) "Airline" means any air transport enterprise offering or operating an international air service. ARTICLE XVI ELECTION OF FIRST INTERIM COUNCIL The first Interim Council shall be composed of the States elected for that purpose by the International Civil Aviation Conference convened in Chicago on November 1, 1944, provided that no State thus elected shall become a member of the Council until it has accepted the present Agreement and unless such acceptance has taken place within six months after December 7, 1944. In no case shall the term of office of a State as a member of the first Interim Council begin before or go beyond the period of two years, starting from the coming into force of the present Agreement. Each State so elected to the Interim Council shall take its seat in the Council upon acceptance by that State of this Agreement or upon the entry into force of this Agreement, whichever is the later date, and it shall hold its seat until the end of the two years following the coning into force of this Agreement: provided, that any State so elected to the Council which does not accept this Agreement within six months after the above-mentioned election shall not become a member of the Council and the seat shall remain vacant until the next meeting of the Assembly. ARTICLE XVII SIGNATURES AND ACCEPTANCES OF AGREEMENT The undersigned delegates to the International Civil Aviation Conference, convened in Chicago on November 1,1944, have affixed their signatures to the present Interim Agreement with the understanding that the Government of the United States of America shall be informed at the earliest possible date by each of the governments on Composition of first Council Taking sent on Council Signing the Agreement 66347°- 47 -PT. II- 54 1529
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