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Aviation Offences Act – Act 307 (1984, 2012)

The Act contains 5 Parts and 17 Sections, as follows:

Part I. Preliminary

1. Short title
2. Interpretation

Part II. Provisions to Give Effect to the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft Signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963

3. Application of criminal law to aircraft
4. Provisions as to extradition
5. Powers of commander of aircraft
6. Provisions as to evidence in connection with aircraft

Part III. Provisions to Give Effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft Signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970

7. Hijacking
8. Violence against passengers or crew

Part IV. Provisions to Give Effect to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation Signed at Montreal on 23 September 1971 and the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Concluded at Montreal on 24 February 1988

9. Destroying, damaging or endangering safety of aircraft
10. Other acts endangering or likely to endanger the safety of aircraft
10A. Act of violence in relation to airport serving international civil aviation

Part V. Miscellaneous

11. Application
12. Powers of Minister
13. Abetting the commission of acts outside Malaysia
14. Penalty
15. Consent for prosecution
16. Position relating to extradition where there is no arrangement
17. Amendment of Schedule

Malaysia-Aviation Offences Act-1984-2012-eng (full text in English, PDF)

Malaysia-Aviation Offences Act-1984-2012-zlm (full text in Malay, PDF)

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