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 is guilty of 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.