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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement - Improvement notices and non-disturbance notices - Improvement notices

300: Compliance with improvement notice

You could also call this:

"Follow the rules in an improvement notice or you might get a big fine"

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If you get an improvement notice, you must do what it says within the time it specifies. You have to follow the instructions in the notice. If you do not comply, you can get in trouble.

If you break the rules, you can commit an offence and have to pay a fine. The fine can be up to $50,000 if you are an individual. It can be up to $250,000 if you are not an individual.

You do not have to follow the recommendations in an improvement notice, only what you must do. This is different from the rules you have to follow. You can look at the Civil Aviation Act 1986 for more information.

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Part 9Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement
Improvement notices and non-disturbance notices: Improvement notices

300Compliance with improvement notice

  1. A person who has been issued with an improvement notice must comply with the notice within the period specified in the notice.

  2. A person who breaches subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction,—

  3. in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding $50,000:
    1. in the case of any other person, to a fine not exceeding $250,000.

      1. It is not an offence to fail to comply with recommendations in an improvement notice.

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