Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Crimes Act 1958 - SECT 80

Unlawfully taking control of an aircraft

80. Unlawfully taking control of an aircraft







(1) A person who without lawful excuse takes or exercises control, whether
direct or through another person, of an aircraft while another person not
being an accomplice to the first-mentioned person is on board the aircraft
shall be guilty of an indictable offence and shall be liable to level 4
imprisonment (15 years maximum).

(2) A person who without lawful excuse, by force or violence or threat of
force or violence or by any trick of false pretence, takes or exercises
control, whether direct or through another person, of an aircraft while
another person not being an accomplice of the first-mentioned person is on
board the aircraft shall be guilty of an indictable offence and shall be
liable to level 3 imprisonment (20 years maximum).

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