Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00156:section:24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 24
Character Range: 32925–34033

24  Threats and false statements
 (1) A person must not threaten to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of a Division 3 aircraft, or to kill or injure anyone on board such an aircraft.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 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 is to be, a plan, proposal, attempt, conspiracy or threat:
 (a) to take or exercise control, by force, of a Division 3 aircraft; or
 (b) to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of such an aircraft; or
 (c) to kill or injure anyone on board such an aircraft.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (3) For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1) or (2), absolute liability applies to the physical element of circumstance of the offence, that the aircraft is a Division 3 aircraft.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.

Division 4—Offences relating to the safety of civil aviation and acts of violence at certain airports