CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 101.195 Marking--unmanned free balloons generally

CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY REGULATIONS 1998 - REG 101.195

  (1)   A person may operate an unmanned free balloon that carries a trailing antenna that requires a force of more than 230 newtons to break it only if the antenna has coloured streamers or pennants attached to it every 15 metres.

Penalty:   25 penalty units.

  (2)   A person may operate an unmanned free balloon that carries a payload only if the payload has fixed to it a durable identification plate carrying sufficient information:

  (a)   to identify the payload; and

  (b)   to enable somebody who finds the payload to contact the person who released the balloon.

Penalty:   10 penalty units.

  (3)   Subregulation (2) does not apply to a light or medium balloon operated by the Bureau of Meteorology.

  (4)   An offence against subregulation   (1) or (2) is an offence of strict liability.

Note:   For strict liability , see section   6.1 of the Criminal Code .