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The Air Navigation and Transport Act started as a deceptively simple act in 1920 which gave the British Empire the authority to control air navigation in the Commonwealth and territories. It also put into effect the International Commission for Air Navigation (ICAN). ==History of the Act== The first attempts at international regulation of air navigation were made in 1910 in Paris, when representatives of 19 European countries attended an International Air Conference. The meeting was abandoned when agreement on the contents could not be reached. At a peace conference after World War I the regulation of air navigation was once again discussed. Because of the advances made in aviation during the war, all attending members agreed to hold an International Conference to draw up rules and international regulations for air traffic.〔 On 25 February 1919, an Air Traffic Committee, of thirty six states in the British Empire under the Council of Defence met for the first time. The Paris Convention was signed on the 13 October 1919,by all attending representatives of the Commonwealth states.〔 Major General Legge, Chairman of the Committee, noted that "''there should be only one regulatory air authority for Australia, working under a single legislature.''" At a Premiers’ Conference in May 1920 the Australian Prime Minister W.M. Hughes's recommendation that "''each State should refer to the Commonwealth the control of air navigation, but in a way as to reserve to the States the right to own and use aircraft for the purpose of government departments and the police powers of the State''" was carried, and the Commonwealth passed the Air Navigation Act in the widest possible terms.〔 The Air Navigation Act of 1920 was granted assent on 2 December 1920, gazetted on 11 February 1921, came into force on 28 March 1921 and became law on 28 June 1921. Regulations under the Act provided for the registration of aircraft, licensing of aerodrome's, licensing of personnel, periodic inspection and maintenance of aircraft, and rules of the air.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air Navigation and Transport Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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