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'File 6/10 III Air Agreements' [‎16v] (32/706)

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The record is made up of 1 file (351 folios). It was created in 5 Jan 1940-15 Dec 1946. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Ch. 61. British Overseas Airways 2 & 3 Geo. 6.
Act, 1939.
8
Saving for
licensing
provisions
of 26 Geo. 5,
& 1 Edw. 8.
c. 44.
Corporation
to adopt
certain
provisional
contracts.
(ii) to discontinue or make any change in
any air transport service or other activity
which they are operating or carrying on; or
(iii) not to undertake any activity which
they are proposing to undertake:
Provided that, in the case of a service or activity
which would require the authority of an order of the
Secretary of State under subsection (1) of section four
of this Act, or the grant of a licence under any Order
in Council made under section five of the Air Navigation
Act, 1936, or the variation of such a licence, any direction
of the Secretary of State under paragraph \b) of thio
section shall in the first instance be a direction to apply
for the necessary order or, as the case may be, for the
necessary licence or variation.
7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as
exempting the Corporation, or any person employed by
them, from compliance with the provisions of any Order
in Council made under section five of the Air Navigation
Act, 1936 (which relates to the licensing of air transport
and commercial flying).
Transfer to the Corporation of Undertakings of Imperial
Airways Limited and British Airways Limited.
8 . — ( 1 ) As soon as may be after the passing of this
Act, the Corporation shall adopt and ratify with such
modifications, if any, as may be agreed in writing by all
parties concerned and approved by the Secretary of
State, the provisional contracts set out in the Third
Schedule to this Act for the acquisition by the Corporation
of the undertakings of the existing companies, anu.
thereafter those contracts shall have effect as if they
had been made with the Corporation otherwise than as
provisional contracts.
The said contracts and any agreement providing
for the modification thereof are hereafter in this Act
referred to as “ the purchase agreements ”.
(2) The Secretary of State shall lay a copy of any
agreement providing for the modification of either of the
said contracts before each House of Parliament.

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This file contains correspondence and papers relating to the establishment, maintenance and control of air routes across the various Arab emirates of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Most of the papers relate to Kuwait, but some also cover air agreements between the British Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the emirates of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .

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1 file (351 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 353; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-282; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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