South Australia
Summary Offences (Drones) Amendment Bill 2015
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Summary Offences Act 1953.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1953
4	Insertion of section 52A
52A	Operation of unmanned aircraft

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Summary Offences (Drones) Amendment Act 2015.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which it is assented to by the Governor.
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Summary Offences Act 1953
4—Insertion of section 52A
After section 52 insert:
52A—Operation of unmanned aircraft
	(1)	A person must not operate an unmanned aircraft within 30 metres of private premises except with the permission of the occupier of the premises.
Maximum penalty: $2 500 or imprisonment for 6 months.
	(2)	It is a defence to a charge of an offence against subsection (1) to prove that—
	(a)	the aircraft was, at the time of the offence, on or above premises of which the defendant was the occupier; and
	(b)	the defendant did not, in operating the aircraft, intend to infringe a reasonable expectation of privacy.
	(3)	In this section—
aircraft has the same meaning as in the Civil Aviation Act 1988 of the Commonwealth but does not include—
	(a)	a balloon (other than a motorised balloon); or
	(b)	a kite; or
	(c)	an aircraft of a prescribed kind;
premises includes land.