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Act index » Part I - Offences » Division 2 - Theft and similar or associated offences
80 Unlawfully taking control of an aircraft
(1)A person who without lawful excuse takes or exercises control, whether direct or through another person, of an aircraft while another person not being an accomplice to the first-mentioned person is on board the aircraft shall be guilty of an indictable offence and shall be liable to level 4 imprisonment (15 years maximum).
S. 80(1) amended by Nos 49/1991 s. 119(1) (Sch. 2 item 41), 48/1997 s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 item 58(a)).
(2)A person who without lawful excuse, by force or violence or threat of force or violence or by any trick of false pretence, takes or exercises control, whether direct or through another person, of an aircraft while another person not being an accomplice of the first-mentioned person is on board the aircraft shall be guilty of an indictable offence and shall be liable to level 3 imprisonment (20 years maximum).
S. 80(2) amended by Nos 9576 s. 11(1), 49/1991 s. 119(1) (Sch. 2 item 31), 48/1997 s. 60(1)(Sch. 1 item 58(b)).