If you break a rule under the Civil Aviation Act 2023, the Director can take you to court. The Director has to do this within a certain time frame. This time frame is usually the longest of two options. You can be taken to court within 12 months of the Director finding out about what you did. The Director might find out about what you did from someone else, or they might already know.

If you made a promise to the Director to do something, and you broke that promise, the Director can take you to court within 6 months. This can happen if you break the promise, if the Director finds out you broke the promise, or if the Director agrees to let you stop doing what you promised. The Director has to follow some rules when deciding when to take you to court, including rules from the Criminal Procedure Act 2011. There are some other rules the Director has to think about when deciding what to do, like the rules in section 380 and section 329, and the rules about enforceable undertakings.