Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A person may operate an unmanned free balloon that carries a trailing antenna that requires a force of more than 230 newtons to break it only if the antenna has coloured streamers or pennants attached to it every 15 metres.
(2) A person may operate an unmanned free balloon that carries a payload only if the payload has fixed to it a durable identification plate carrying sufficient information:
(a) to identify the payload; and
(b) to enable somebody who finds the payload to contact the person who released the balloon.
(3) Subregulation (2) does not apply to a light or medium balloon operated by the Bureau of Meteorology.
(4) An offence against subregulation (1) or (2) is an offence of strict liability.
Note: For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal
Code .