Dropping of persons and articles

(1) Articles and animals (whether or not attached to a parachute) shall not be dropped, or permitted to drop, from an aircraft in flight so as to endanger persons or property. (2) Articles, animals and persons (whether or not attached to a parachute) shall not be dropped, or permitted to drop, to the surface from an aircraft flying over the Colony, provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the descent of person by parachute from an aircraft in an emergency, or to the dropping of articles by, or with the authority of, the commander of the aircraft in the following circumstances362 Civil Aviation (a) the dropping of articles for the purpose of saving life; (b) the jettisoning, in case of emergency, of fuel or other articles in the aircraft; (c) the dropping of ballast in the form of fine sand or water; (d) the dropping of articles solely for the purpose of navigating the aircraft in accordance with ordinary practice or with the provisions of this (e) the dropping at an aerodrome in accordance with prescribed regulations of ropes, banners or similar articles towed by aircraft. (3) For the purposes of this Article dropping includes projecting and lowering. (4) Nothing in this Article shall prohibit the lowering of any person, animal or article from a helicopter to the surface, if the certificate of airworthiness issued or rendered valid in respect of the helicopter under the law of the country in which it is registered includes an express provision that it may be used for that purpose. war.