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322 Wireless apparatus; license, regulations. Transportation of munitions of war, etc. Inspection. Availability of aero- dromes, services, etc. Landings, and de- partures from speci- fied aerodromes. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES ARTICLE 10. Aircraft of either of the Parties to this arrangement may carry wireless apparatus in the territory of the other Party only if a li- cence to install and work such apparatus (which licence must be carried in the aircraft) shall have been issued by the competent authorities of the Party in whose territory the aircraft is registered. The use of such apparatus shall be in accordance with the regula- tions on the subject issued by the competent authorities of the terri- tory within whose air space the aircraft is navigating. Such appa- ratus shall be used only by such members of the crew as are provided with a special licence for the purpose issued by the competent authorities 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 equip- ment of aircraft with wireless apparatus. ARTICLE 11. No arms of war, explosives of war, or munitions of war shall be carried by aircraft of either Party in or above the territory of the other Party or by the crew or passengers except by permission of the competent authorities of the territory within whose air space the aircraft is navigating. ARTrcLE 12. 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 13. 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 Party, which shall also be entitled to the assistance of the meteorological 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 control of the Party in whose territory they are made be the same for the aircraft of both Parties. ARTICLE 14. 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 customs, passport, quaran- tine and immigration regulations and clearance of aircraft, and no intermediate 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 the above-mentioned facilities have been arranged. The prohibition of any intermediate landing applies also in such cases.