Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 5

Nationality and registration marks

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 36 of 1999 s. 3

(1) An aircraft (other than an aircraft permitted by or under this Order to
fly without being registered) shall not fly unless it bears painted thereon or
affixed thereto, in the manner required by the law of the country in which it
is registered, the nationality and registration marks required by that law.

(2) The marks to be borne by aircraft registered in Hong Kong shall comply
with Part B of Schedule 1 to this Order.

(3) An aircraft shall not bear any marks which purport to indicate:

   (a)  that the aircraft is registered in a country in which it is not in
        fact registered, provided that marks approved by the Chief Executive
for the purposes of flights in accordance with the "B Conditions" contained in
Schedule 2 to this Order shall be deemed not to purport to indicate that the
aircraft is so registered; or (36 of 1999 s. 3)

   (b)  that the aircraft is a State aircraft of a particular country if it is
        not in fact such an aircraft, unless the appropriate authority of that
        country has sanctioned the bearing of such marks.