Prohibition on Tampering with Registration Labels

In plain language

You are not allowed to damage, remove, or mess with any drone registration label unless you have official permission from the authority.

Requirement as structured

It is an offence for a person, without the Authority's permission, to intentionally damage, remove, tamper with, deface or mutilate any registration label installed, affixed or displayed on a registrable unmanned aircraft, where the person knows or ought reasonably to know that they do not have that permission; the penalty on conviction is a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.

Original regulatory text

(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. (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.