A person who—
| (a) |
on board any aircraft— |
| (i) |
by force or threat of force or by any other form of intimidation and without lawful reason seizes, or exercises control of, that aircraft; |
| (ii) |
commits an act of violence, including an assault or threat, whether of a physical or verbal nature, against any person, including a crew member, which is likely to endanger the safety of that aircraft; or |
| (iii) |
wilfully interferes with any member of the crew of that aircraft in the performance of his or her duties; |
| (b) |
wilfully destroys an aircraft in service or wilfully causes damage to such an aircraft, which renders it incapable of flight or causes damage to it, which is likely to endanger its safety; |
| (c) |
wilfully places on an aircraft in service, by any means whatsoever, a device or substance which is likely to destroy that aircraft or to cause damage to it, render it incapable of flight or endanger its safety; |
| (d) |
wilfully destroys or wilfully damages air navigation facilities or willfully interferes with their operation, which interference is likely to endanger the safety of aircraft; |
| (e) |
communicates information which he or she knows to be false, thereby endangering the safety of an aircraft in service; |
| (f) |
places at or in any airport, heliport or air navigation facility any device or substance which is calculated to endanger, injure or kill any person, or to endanger, damage, destroy, disrupt, render useless or unserviceable or put out of action any property, vehicle, aircraft, building, equipment or air navigation facility or part thereof, thereby endangering safety at such airport, heliport or aviation navigation facility; |
| (g) |
with the intention to jeopardise the operation of an air carrier, the safety or security of an airport, heliport, aircraft in service, persons or property contaminates any aviation fuel;" |
| (h) |
commits an act at an airport, which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; |
| (i) |
wilfully destroys or seriously damages the facilities of a designated or licensed airport or aircraft not in service located thereon or disrupts the services of the airport through the use of any device, substance or weapon which endangers or is likely to endanger security at that airport; or |
| (j) |
wilfully performs any other act which jeopardises or may jeopardise— |
| (i) |
the operation of an air carrier; |
| (ii) |
the safety of an airport, heliport, aircraft in service or of persons or property at such airport, heliport or of such aircraft, |
is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or to imprisonment not exceeding 30 years or to both such fine
Contingency Fees Act, 1997
