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South Australia
Summary Offences (Drones) Amendment
Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Summary
Offences Act 1953
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences
Act 1953
52AOperation of
unmanned aircraft
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Summary Offences (Drones) Amendment
Act 2015.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which it is
assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Summary Offences
Act 1953
After section 52 insert:
52A—Operation of unmanned
aircraft
(1) A person must not
operate an unmanned aircraft within 30 metres of private premises
except with the permission of the occupier of the premises.
Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.
(2) It is a defence to a charge of an offence against
subsection (1)
to prove that—
(a) the aircraft was, at the time of the offence, on or above premises of
which the defendant was the occupier; and
(b) the defendant did not, in operating the aircraft, intend to infringe a
reasonable expectation of privacy.
(3) In this section—
aircraft has the same meaning as in the Civil Aviation
Act 1988 of the Commonwealth but does not include—
(a) a balloon (other than a motorised balloon); or
(b) a kite; or
(c) an aircraft of a prescribed kind;
premises includes land.