Malaysia legislation
Section 10
Section 10
Subject to subsection (4), any person who unlawfully and intentionally—
(2)
Subsection (1) applies to any property used for the provision of air navigation facilities including any land, building or ship so used, and including any apparatus or equipment so used, whether it is on board an aircraft or elsewhere.
(3)
Subject to subsections (4) and (5), any person who intentionally communicates any information which is false, misleading or deceptive in a material particular, where the communication of the information endangers the safety of an aircraft in flight or is likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft in flight, commits an offence under this Act.
(4)
It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (3) to prove—
(a)
that he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that the information was true; or
(b)
that, when he communicated the information, he was lawfully employed to perform duties which consisted of or included the communication of information and that he communicated the information in good faith in the performance of those duties.
(5)
Subsections (1) and (3) do not apply to the commission of any act unless either the act is committed in Malaysia or, where the act is committed outside Malaysia—
(a)
the person committing the act is a citizen of Malaysia;
(b)
the commission of the act endangers or is likely to endanger the safety in flight of a civil aircraft registered in
Malaysia or chartered by demise to a lessee whose principal place of business or, if he has no place of business, whose permanent residence is in Malaysia;
(c)
the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which is registered or so chartered; or
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(d)
the act is committed on board a civil aircraft which lands in Malaysia with the person who committed the act still on board.
(6)
Subsection (1) does not apply to any act committed outside
Malaysia and so committed in relation to property which is situated outside Malaysia and is not used for the provision of air navigation facilities in connection with international air navigation, unless the person committing the act is a citizen of Malaysia.
(7)
In this section, ―civil aircraft‖ means any aircraft other than an aircraft used in military, customs or police service.
Act of violence in relation to airport serving international civil aviation