158A. Aircraft
registered in or belonging to a foreign State- Except as provided in rules 134 and 158, no aircraft
registered in, or belonging to a foreign State, shall be flown into, over,
across or within India except with the prior permission of the Director-General
and except in accordance with such terms and conditions as he may think fit to
impose while granting such permission :
Provided that the
Director-General may, by general or special order, exempt any aircraft or class
or aircraft either generally or in respect of any specified flight from the
provisions of this rule.
Note:- For the purpose of
this rule, foreign aircraft falling under sub-rule(3) of rule 1 shall be deemed
as aircraft registered in India and Indian aircraft falling under sub-rule(4)
of rule 1 shall be deemed as aircraft not registered in India.
[Inserted by GSR No. 83, dated 1-1-1966 and further
amended vide GSR No. 150(E) dated 04-03-2009]