HC Deb 11 February 1957 vol 564 cc116-7W
74. Mr. Pitman

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will propose that the United Nations should direct the International Law Commission to institute a study of the law of the air with a view to preparing a comprehensive statute similar to that which the commission has already prepared for the law of the sea.

Mr. Ian Harvey

The law of the air, unlike the law of the sea, largely rests on international treaties and conventions, by means of which it has in the main developed. The international Civil Aviation Organisation, as the United Nations Agency primarily concerned and technically best qualified, is in the view of Her Majesty's Government a more appropriate body than the International Law Commission to further the development of air law.

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