Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A person may make a report to the ATSB about any reportable safety concern.
(2) A reportable safety concern is any issue that affects, or might affect, transport safety, other than the following:
(a) matters showing a serious and imminent threat to transport safety or a person's life or health ;
(b) industrial relations issues ;
(c) criminal conduct .
Note 1: If an issue mentioned in paragraph ( a) or (c) is mentioned in a report, personal information about the person making the report may be disclosed--see s ubs ection 16 (3) and Part 6.
Note 2: If a matter must be reported by a person under another law, such as under Division 1 of Part 3 of the Act, reporting the matter under the REPCON scheme will not relieve the person of the obligation to report the matter under the other law .
(3) For paragraph ( 2) ( c ), criminal conduct means an offence against a law of the Common wealth, a State or a Territory, including the following:
(a) a terrorist act ;
(b) an act of unlawful interference with aviation that constitutes an offence under the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 .