Civil Aviation Act 1990

Offences and penalties - Safety offences

44A: Failure to comply with inspection or monitoring request

You could also call this:

"You must follow requests for checks or your actions might be against the law"

If you don't follow the Director's requests for inspection or monitoring as outlined in section 15, you are breaking the law. This is called an offence. You need to have a good reason if you don't comply.

If you commit this offence, you can be punished. The punishment depends on whether you are an individual person or a company.

If you are an individual person, you might have to pay a fine of up to $10,000. If you keep breaking the law, you might have to pay an extra $2,000 for each day you continue to break it.

If you are a company, the fine can be much bigger. You might have to pay up to $100,000. If you keep breaking the law, you might have to pay an extra $20,000 for each day you continue to break it.

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Part 5Offences and penalties
Safety offences

44AFailure to comply with inspection or monitoring request

Every person commits an offence who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with any requirement of the Director under subsection (1) or subsection (3) of section 15.
Every person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction,—
in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $2,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence is continued; or
in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $100,000 and, if the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding $20,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence is continued.

Notes

Section 44A: inserted, on 10 August 1992, by section 23 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 75).
Section 44A heading: amended, on 1 June 2002, by section 11 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 15).
Section 44A(2): amended, on 1 July 2013, by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).