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SPACE ACTIVITIES ACT 1998 No. 123, 1998 - SECT 94
Custody of space object etc.
(1) If an accident occurs, the space object or the space object wreckage
concerned and any thing in the space object or wreckage is taken to be in the
Minister's custody until an Investigator is appointed for the accident. The
things are then taken to be in the Investigator's custody.
(2) When it is no longer necessary to retain any such thing for the purposes
of the investigation, the Investigator must release custody of the thing to
its owner or to a person the owner authorises to receive it.
(3) A person who removes or otherwise interferes with a thing that is in the
custody of the Minister or Investigator under subsection (1), except:
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum
penalty: Imprisonment for 6 months.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal
Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.
(4) Subsection (3) does not prevent any action necessary for all or any of the
following:
(a) extracting persons (including deceased persons) from the
wreckage of a space object;
(b) protecting the wreckage from being destroyed by fire or other cause;
(c) preventing immediate danger to the safety of persons or property;
(d) moving the space object or the wreckage and its contents to a safe
place when the object crashes on water or is wrecked on water.
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