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Section 122, Civil Aviation Act, 2017 for an effective aviation safety and security

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(1) A person who unlawfully and intentionally - (a) performs an act of violence against a person on board an aircraft in flight, on ground if that act is likely to endanger the safety and security of that aircraft; (b) destroys an aircraft in service or causes damage to the aircraft in a manner that renders it incapable of flight or which is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft in flight; (c) places or causes to be placed on an aircraft in service by any means whatsoever a device or substance that is likely to destroy that aircraft or to cause damage to the aircraft that renders it incapable of flight or that is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft in flight; or (d) obstructs, interferes with, destroys, steals or causes damage to a communication, or navigation system, surveillance system, instrument, cables or any part of the systems or instruments used in civil aviation; (e) communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby endangering the safety of an aircraft in flight; (f) any disorderly behaviour in and around a civil aviation facility, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than 50,000 United States Dollars or its equivalent in Leones and not exceeding 100,000 United States Dollars or its equivalent in Leones or imprisonment for a term not less than 10 years, or to both the fine

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