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(1) An offence committed on an aircraft registered in the Republic shall, for the purposes of jurisdiction, be deemed to have been committed in the place where the offender is for the time being.

(2) Where a body corporate is convicted of an offence under this Act, every director, general manager, secretary or any other officer of the body corporate, or a person purporting to act in that capacity, shall be deemed to have committed that offence.

(3) A person shall not be convicted pursuant to subsection(2) where that person proves that the offence was committed without that person’s consent or connivance and that due diligence was exercised to prevent the commission of the offence having regard to the circumstances.

(4) In subsection (2) “director” includes a person occupying the position of director by whatever name called and a person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a director of the body corporate.

(5) A person commits an offence on board an aircraft if that person

(a) assaults, intimidates or threatens, whether physically or verbally, a crew member where the act interferes with the performance of the function of a crew member or lessens the ability of the crew member to perform any of those functions;

(b) refuses to comply with a lawful instruction given by the person in command of the aircraft or by a crew member for the purpose of ensuring the safety of the aircraft or of a person or property on board the aircraft or for the purpose of maintaining good order and discipline on board the aircraft;

(c) does an act of physical violence against a person or sexually assaults a person or molests a child on board the aircraft;

(d) assaults, intimidates or threatens whether physically or verbally, any other person on board the aircraft, or consumes an alcoholic beverage or a drug resulting in intoxication

(i) if the act endangers or is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft or of a person on board the aircraft, or

(ii) if the act jeopardizes or is likely to jeopardize the good order and discipline on board the aircraft;

(e) causes damage to the aircraft or destruction of property on board the aircraft;

(f) smokes or tampers with a smoke detector or any other safety-related device on board the aircraft;

(g) operates a portable electronic device when that is prohibited.

(6) A person who does an act intended by force or threat or intimidation to seize or exercise control of an aircraft attempts to do that act or abets the doing of that act commits an offence.

(7) Unless parliament otherwise provides, the High Court has jurisdiction

(a) to enforce a claim in respe4ct of an aircraft;

(b) to deal with an offence which took place on board

(i) an aircraft registered in the Republic, or

(ii) an aircraft leased, with or without a crew, to an operator whose principal place of business is in the Republic, or if he operator does not have a principal of business in the Republic, a permanent residence in the Republic, or

(iii) an aircraft in or in flight over the Republic; or

(d) to deal with an offence which took place in an aircraft in flight outside the Republic.

(i) where the next landing of the aircraft is in the Republic, and

(ii) where the person in command of the aircraft delivers the suspected offender to the competent authority in the Republic with the request that the competent authority prosecute the suspected offender, and with the affirmation that a similar report has not been or will not be made to another state.

(8) For the purposes of subsection (6), “in flight” means the period from the moment when power is applied for the purposes of take off until the moment when the landing run ends.

(9) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred penalty units or to imprisonment for a tem not exceeding two years.