Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SPACE (LAUNCHES AND RETURNS) ACT 2018 - SECT 15A

    A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   a space object is returned to a place or area outside Australia; and

  (b)   the person is a responsible party for the return; and

  (c)   the return of the object to that place or area is not authorised by a return authorisation held by any person; and

  (d)   no authorisation certificate covering the return is held by any person.

Note:   In this context, the effect of the definition of responsible party in section   8 is that the person is a responsible party only if the person is also an Australian national.

Penalty:

  (a)   for an individual--imprisonment for 10 years or 5,500 penalty units, or both; or

  (b)   for a body corporate--100,000 penalty units.