Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (AVIATION) ACT 1991 - SECT 14

  (1)   Where:

  (a)   a person on board an aircraft commits an act of violence against all or any of the passengers or crew; and

  (b)   the act would, if committed in the Jervis Bay Territory , be an offence against a law in force in that Territory (other than this Act);

the person commits an offence if any of the following applies when the act is committed:

  (c)   Article 4 of the Hague Convention requires Australia to establish its jurisdiction over the act;

  (d)   the aircraft is engaged in a prescribed flight;

  (e)   the aircraft is a Commonwealth aircraft;

  (f)   the aircraft is a visiting government aircraft;

  (g)   the aircraft is outside Australia but the person who does the act is an Australian citizen.

  (1A)   Absolute liability applies to paragraphs   ( 1)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g).

Note:   For absolute liability , see section   6.2 of the Criminal Code .

  (2)   The punishment for an offence against subsection   ( 1) is the same as that for the offence mentioned in paragraph   ( 1)(b).

  (3)   This section extends to an act of violence that was committed, or may have been committed, in the Jervis Bay Territory .