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CRIMES (AVIATION) ACT 1991 - SECT 28

Threats and false statements

  (1)   A person must not threaten to:

  (a)   destroy, damage or endanger the safety of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or

  (b)   kill or injure anyone who is, or may be, within the limits of a Commonwealth aerodrome or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 10 years .

  (2)   A person must not make a statement or communicate information, being a statement or information that he or she knows to be false, to the effect, or from which it can reasonably be inferred, that there has been, is, or will be, a plan, proposal, attempt, conspiracy or threat:

  (a)   to take or exercise control, by force, of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or

  (b)   to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or part of a Commonwealth aerodrome, or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities; or

  (c)   to kill or injure anyone who is, or may be, within the limits of a Commonwealth aerodrome or any Commonwealth air navigation facilities.

Penalty:   Imprisonment for 10 years .

  (3)   For the purposes of an offence against subsection   ( 1) or (2), absolute liability applies to whichever one of the following physical elements of circumstance is relevant to the offence:

  (a)   that the aerodrome is a Commonwealth aerodrome;

  (b)   that the air navigation facilities are Commonwealth air navigation facilities.

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

 



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