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 AIR NAVIGATION-UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 1829 territory, with or without intermediary landing, shall be subject to CODllent required. the {>rior consent of the other Party given on the principle of reci- procIty and at the request of the party whose nationality the air transport company possesses. The parties to this arrangement agree that the period in which cet on pilot;s li- pilots may, while holding valid pilot licenses issued or rendered valid by either country, operate registered aircraft of that country in the other country for non-industrial or non-commercial purposes shall be limited to a period not exceeding six months from the time of entry for the purpose of operating aircraft, unless prior to the expira- tion of this period the pilots obtain from the Government of the country in which they are operating, pilot licenses authorizing them to operate aircraft for non-industrial or non-commercial purposes. ARTICLE 5 The aircraft of each of the Parties to this arrangement, their crews Jurisdiction over alr- and passengers, shall, while within the territory of the other Party, craft. be subject to the general legislation in force in that territory, as well as the regulations in force therein relating to air traffic in general) to the transport of passengers and goods and to :public safety and order in so far as these regulations apply to all foreIgn aircraft, their crews and passengers. Each of the Parties to this arrangement shall permit the import or export of all merchandise which may be legally imported or exported and also the carriage of passengers, subject to any customs immigra- tion and quarantine restrictions, into or from their respective terri- tories in the aircraft of the other Party, and such aIrcraft their passengers and cargoes, shall enjoy the same privileges as and shall not be subjected to any other or hIgher duties or char~s than those which the aircraft of the country, imposing such dutIes or charges, engaged in international commerce, and theIr cargoes and passengers, or the aircraft of any foreign country likewise engaged, and their cargoes and passengers, enjoy or are subjected to. Each of the Parties to this arrangement may reserve to its own aircraft air commerce between any two points neither of which is in a foreign country. Nevertheless the aircraft of either Party may proceed from any aerodrome in the territory of the other Party which they are entitled to use to any other such aerodro,me either for the purpose of landing the whole or part of their cargoes or passengers or of taking on bOard the whole or part of their cargoes or passen- gers, provided that such cargoes are covered by through bills of lading, and such passengers hold through tickets, issued respectively for a journey whose starting place and destination both are not points between which air commerce has been dub so reserved, and such aircraft, while proceeding as aforesaid, from one aerodrome to anotherhshall, notwithstandmg that such aerodromes are points between w ich air commerce has been duly reserved, enjoy all the privileges of this arrangement. AltTICLE 6 Each of the Parties to this arrangement shall have the right to Restricted areas. prohibit air traffic over certain areas of its territory, provided that no distinction in this matter is made between its aircraft enga~ in international commerce and the aircraft of the other Party Hke- wise engaged. The areas above which air traffic is thus prohibited by either Party must be notified to the other Party.