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 AIR NAVIGATION-UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. ARTICLE 2. The present arrangement shall apply to Continental United States of America, exclusive of Alaska, and to the Union of South Africa, including the adjacent territorial waters of the two countries. ARTICLE 3. The term aircraft with reference to one or the other Party to this arrangement shall be understood to mean civil aircraft, including state aircraft used exclusively for commercial purposes, duly reg- istered in the territory of such Party. ARTICLE 4. Each of the Parties undertakes to grant liberty of passage above its territory in time of peace to the aircraft of the other Party, pro- vided that the conditions set forth in the present arrangement are observed. It is, however, agreed that the establishment and operation of regular air routes by an air transport company of one of the Parties within the territory of the other Party or across the said territory, with or without intermediary landing, shall be subject to the prior consent of the other Party gIven on the principle of reciprocity 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 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 expiratIon 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 1). The aircraft of each of the Parties to this arrangement, their crews and passengers, shall, while within the territory of the other Party, 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 immig-ration and quarantine restrictions, into or from their re- spectIve territories in the aircraft of the other Party, and such aIrcraft, their passengers and cargoes, shall enjoy the same privi- leges as and shall not be subjected to any other or higher dutIes or ch.ar~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 like- wise 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 1833