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 AIR NAVIGATION-UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. ARTICLE 9. Aircraft of either of the Parties to this arrangement may carry wireless apparatus in the territory of the other Party only if a license to mstall and work such apparatus shall have been issued by the competent authorities of the Party in whose territory the air- craft is registered. The use of such apparatus shall be in accordance with the regulations on the subject issued by the competent author- ities of the territory within whose air space the aircraft is navigating. Such apparatus shall be used only by such members of the crew as are provided with a special license for the purpose issued by the Government of the territory in which the aircraft is registered. 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 10. No arms of war, explosives of war, or munitions of war shall be carried by aircraft of either Party above the territory of the other Party or by the crew or passengers, except by permission of the com- petent authorities of the territory within whose air space the aircraft IS navigating. ARTICLE 11. 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 12. 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 Parti' which shall also be entitled to the assistance of the meteorologica 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 centrol of the Party in whose territory they are made be the same for the aircraft of both Parties. ARTICLE 13. 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 immigration regulations and clearance of aircraft, and no intermediary 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 customs, immigration and clearance facilities have been arranged. The prohibition of any intermediary landing applies also in such cases. In the event of a forced landing outside the aerodromes, referred to in the first paragraph of this article, the pilot of the aircraft, its crew and the passengers shall conform to the customs and immi- gration regulations in force in the territory in which the landing has been made. 1835