Aircraft Offences Act 1971 (SA)

South Australia Aircraft Offences Act 1971 An Act with respect to certain offences relating to certain aircraft and for other purposes.

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 3 Interpretation Part 2—Crimes on board aircraft engaged in certain flights 4 Application of Part 5 Offences committed on aircraft to which this Part applies Part 3—Crimes affecting aircraft 6 Application of Part 7 Taking control of aircraft 8 Destruction of aircraft 9 Destruction of aircraft with intent to kill 10 Prejudicing safe operation of aircraft 11 Prejudicing safe operation of aircraft with intent to kill persons etc 12 Assaulting crew etc 13 Endangering safety of aircraft 14 Taking or sending dangerous goods on aircraft 15 Threats and false statements 16 Alternative verdicts Part 4—Miscellaneous 17 Arrest of offenders etc 18 Power of person to search aircraft 19 Saving of other laws 20 Person not to be convicted twice for same act or omission 21 Offences under Act Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title This Act may be cited as the Aircraft Offences Act 1971. 3—Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears— aircraft includes any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air; landing includes alighting on water; member of the crew, in relation to an aircraft, means a person having duties or functions on board the aircraft; the Air Navigation Regulations means the regulations known as the Air Navigation Regulations as in force for the time being under the Air Navigation Act 1920 of the Commonwealth as in force from time to time and includes any of those regulations as in force by virtue of a law of the State; the Commonwealth Act means the Crimes (Aircraft) Act 1963 of the Commonwealth as in force from time to time. (2) For the purposes of this Act— (a) a flight of an aircraft shall be taken to commence— (i) at the time of the closing of the last external door of the aircraft to be closed before the aircraft first moves for the purpose of taking off from any place; or (ii) if subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is not applicable—at the time at which the aircraft first moves for the purpose of taking off from any place; and (b) a flight of an aircraft shall be taken to end— (i) at the time of the opening of the first external door of the aircraft to be opened after the aircraft comes to rest after its next landing after the commencement of the flight; or (ii) if subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is not applicable—at the time at which the aircraft comes to rest after its next landing after the commencement of the flight, or, if the aircraft is destroyed or the flight is abandoned, before either subparagraph (i) or subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph becomes applicable, at the time at which the aircraft is destroyed or the flight is abandoned, as the case may be. (4) A flight of an aircraft shall, for the purposes of this Act, be taken to be a flight within the State where the flight commences in the State and ends, or is, at the commencement of the flight, intended to end, in the State, whether or not the aircraft may or will, in the course of the flight, go outside the State.