Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00156:section:47
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2018C00156
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 47
Character Range: 54020–54643

47  Venue
 (1) If:
 (a) a person is being tried in a State or Territory court for an offence against this Act committed on an aircraft in flight; and
 (b) the act constituting the offence, or any part of the offence, is proved;
it must be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the act took place in that State or Territory.
 (2) If the information, complaint or indictment relating to an offence against this Act committed on an aircraft in flight specifies the flight in which the aircraft was engaged, it need not also specify the part of Australia, or other place, where the offence was committed.