Singapore legislation

Regulation 48

of Air Navigation (101 — Unmanned Aircraft Operations) Regulations 2019

Regulation 48

Offences connected with registration labels

Subregulation 1

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person has possession or control of a false registration label; and

(b)

the person knows or ought reasonably to have known that the document is a false registration label.

Subregulation 2

Paragraph (1) does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse.

Subregulation 3

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person makes a false registration label with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to accept it as genuine; and

(b)

by reason of the other person so accepting it as genuine —

(i)

obtains a gain (whether for the person or someone else);

(ii)

causes a loss to the other person or someone else; or

(iii)

influences the exercise of a public duty.

Subregulation 4

A person commits an offence if —

(a)

the person installs, affixes or displays on a registrable unmanned aircraft a false registration label which the person knows, or ought reasonably to have known, to be a false registration label with the intention of dishonestly inducing another person to accept it as genuine; and

(b)

by reason of the other person so accepting, the person —

(i)

obtains a gain (whether for the person or someone else);

(ii)

causes a loss to the other person or someone else; or

(iii)

influences the exercise of a public duty.

Subregulation 5

A person commits an offence if the person —

(a)

without the permission of the Authority, intentionally damages, removes, tampers, defaces or mutilates any registration label installed, affixed or displayed on a registrable unmanned aircraft; and

(b)

knows or ought reasonably to know that the person does not have that permission to damage, remove, tamper, deface or mutilate the registration label.

Subregulation 6

A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (1), (3), (4) or (5) shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

Subregulation 7

A person may be treated for the purposes of this regulation as making a false registration label if the person alters a label, adhesive or other document so as to make it false in any respect, whether or not it was already a false registration label before the alteration or is false in some other respect apart from that alteration.