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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement - Unruly passenger offences - Requirement for passenger to provide information

404: Requirements relating to information and verification

You could also call this:

"Giving correct information when asked by aviation officials"

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The Director or a person they authorise may ask you for your details if they think you have done something wrong on a plane, except for certain offences against section 394 or 395(1)(d). They can do this if they have a good reason to suspect you have committed an unruly passenger offence. You will be asked to give them your details.

If the Director or the authorised person thinks the details you give them are not true or are misleading, they can ask you to prove those details are correct. They can only ask you for proof that is reasonable in the situation. This means they will only ask for what is fair and necessary.

The Director or the authorised person must check your proof quickly and give it back to you as soon as they have finished checking it. They will inspect your proof without delay and return it to you as soon as possible. You will get your proof back after they have looked at it.

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Part 9Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement
Unruly passenger offences: Requirement for passenger to provide information

404Requirements relating to information and verification

  1. The Director or a person authorised by the Director (the Director or person) may require a passenger to provide the passenger’s details to the Director or person, if the Director or person has reasonable grounds to suspect that the passenger has committed an unruly passenger offence other than an offence against section 394 or 395(1)(d).

  2. If the Director or person has reasonable grounds to suspect that any details provided are false or misleading, the Director or person may require the passenger to give the verification of those details that it is reasonable in the circumstances to require the passenger to provide.

  3. The verification must be inspected without delay and returned to the passenger as soon as practicable after the inspection has concluded.

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