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Outer Space and High-altitude Activities Act 2017

Enforcement and other matters - Offences - Other offences

73: Offences relating to segregated areas and areas set aside

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If you are in a special area that has been set aside under section 63, you must follow the rules. You commit an offence if you do not comply with a request made under section 63(4) or if you do not leave the area immediately after being ordered to do so under section 63(5).

If you break this rule, you can be punished with up to 3 months in prison, a fine of up to $2,000, or both.

You can find more information about these rules by looking at section 63, which explains how these special areas are created and what the rules are for being in them.

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Offences: Other offences

73Offences relating to segregated areas and areas set aside

  1. A person commits an offence if the person, being in a segregated area or an area specially set aside under section 63,—

  2. fails or refuses to comply with a request under section 63(4); or
    1. fails or refuses to leave the segregated area or an area specially set aside immediately after having been ordered to do so under section 63(5).

      1. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $2,000, or both.