Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SPACE (LAUNCHES AND RETURNS) ACT 2018 - SECT 41

Offence

  (1)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is the holder of an Australian high power rocket permit; and

  (b)   the person does an act or omits to do an act; and

  (c)   the act or omission contravenes a condition of the permit; and

  (d)   the condition is a condition to which the permit is subject under paragraph   40(a) or (b).

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.

Civil penalty

  (2)   The holder of an Australian high power rocket permit must not contravene a condition of the permit.

Civil penalty:   1,000 penalty units.