Civil Aviation Offences under the Civil Aviation Act, 2006.
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2017
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Faculty of Law, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.
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Aviation offence is an act of unlawful interference with civil aviation that is punishable by the State. Civil aviation across the globe has suffered from the menace of the consequence of which affected the international aviation communities under the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act 2006 were prior to known what ambience could research methodologically. It is found that some offences are inexcusably omitted in the Act and that non-inclusion of technological means to commit any of the offences is a grave omission in this 21st century. The paper therefore called for a review of the Act to include the omitted offences so as to be in line with the current Anti-Security Convention, which is 2010 Beijing Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation, and Protocol Supplementary to Hague Convention 1970 done at Beijing on 10 September 2010.
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Readings in Law and Policy (Current Issues and Trends) in Commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Rivers State (1967-2017) Prof. OVC Okene (ed.) 603-662.