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For the purpose of the present Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the term “the Convention” means the Convention on International Civil Aviation opened for signature at Chicago on the 7th day of December, 1944, and includes any Annex adopted under Article 90 of that Convention and any amendment of the Annexes or Convention under Articles 90 or 94 thereof;
(b) the term “aeronautical authorities” means, in the case of the Netherlands, the Director General of Civil Aviation and any person or body authorised to perform any functions presently exercised by the said Director General or similar functions, and, in the case of Ceylon, the Director of Civil Aviation and any person or body authorised to perform any functions presently exercised by the said Director of Civil Aviation or similar functions;
(c) the term “designated airline” means an airline which the aeronautical authorities of either Contracting Party shall have notified in writing to the aeronautical authorities of the other Contracting Party as an airline designated by it in accordance with Article 2 of the present Agreement to operate air services on the routes specified in such notification;
(d) the term “territory” in relation to a Contracting Party means the land areas and territorial waters adjacent thereto under the sovereignty, suzerainty, protection or trusteeship of that Contracting Party;
(e) the term “change of gauge” means the operation of one of the agreed services by a designated airline in such a way that the section of the route nearer the terminal in the territory of the Contracting Party designating the airline is flown by aircraft different in capacity from those used on the more distant section; and
(f) the terms “air service”, “international air service”, “airline” and “stop for non-traffic purposes” have the meanings respectively assigned to them in Article 96 of the Convention.