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AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY ACT 2004 No. 8, 2004 - SECT 10
Meaning of unlawful interference with aviation
- (1)
- Any of the following done without lawful authority is an unlawful
interference with aviation :
- (a)
- taking control of an aircraft by force, or threat of force, or any other
form of intimidation;
- (b)
- destroying an aircraft that is in service;
- (c)
- causing damage to an aircraft that is in service that puts the safety of
the aircraft, or any person on board or outside the aircraft, at risk;
- (d)
- doing anything on board an aircraft that is in service that puts the
safety of the aircraft, or any person on board or outside the aircraft, at
risk;
- (e)
- placing, or causing to be placed, on board an aircraft that is in service
anything that puts the safety of the aircraft, or any person on board or
outside the aircraft, at risk;
- (f)
- putting the safety of aircraft at risk by interfering with, damaging or
destroying air navigation facilities;
- (g)
- putting the safety of an aircraft at risk by communicating false
information;
- (h)
- committing an act at an airport, or causing any interference or damage,
that puts the safe operation of the airport, or the safety of any person at
the airport, at risk.
- (2)
- However, unlawful interference with aviation does not include lawful
advocacy, protest, dissent or industrial action that does not result in, or
contribute to, an action of a kind mentioned in paragraphs (1)(a) to (h).
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