Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CRIMES (AVIATION) ACT 1991 - SECT 28

             (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 2 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 2 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 .