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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Offences and penalties - General offences

52: Failure to maintain accurate records

You could also call this:

“Keeping proper aviation records is important and required by law”

If you don’t keep correct records as required by the Civil Aviation Act or its rules, you are breaking the law. This includes not writing down accurate information, not keeping your records up to date and correct, or not showing your correct records to the Authority or the Director when asked.

If you break this law, you can be punished. If you are an individual person, you might have to pay up to $5,000. If you are a company or organisation, you might have to pay up to $30,000.

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Part 5 Offences and penalties
General offences

52Failure to maintain accurate records

  1. Every person commits an offence who contravenes any provision of this Act or any rule made under this Act that requires that person—

  2. to make accurate entries in a record; or
    1. to maintain an accurate record; or
      1. to produce to the Authority or the Director an accurate record.

        1. Every person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction,—

        2. in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $5,000; or
          1. in the case of a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding $30,000.

            Notes
            • Section 52(1)(c): amended, on , by section 40(3) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 75).
            • Section 52(2): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
            • Section 52(2)(b): amended, on , by section 41 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 75).