(1) If any provision of these Regulations or any directions issued pursuant to these Regulations is contravened in relation to an aircraft, the operator of that aircraft and the pilot in command thereof shall, without prejudice to the liability of any other person under these Regulations for that contravention, be deemed for the purposes of the following provisions of this regulation to have contravened that provision unless he or she proves that the contravention occurred without his consent or connivance and that he or she exercised all due diligence to prevent that contravention.
(2) If it is proved that an act or omission of any person which would otherwise have been a contravention of these Regulations was due to any cause not avoidable by the exercise of reasonable care by that person the act or omission shall be deemed not to be a contravention by that person of that provision.
(3) Where a person is charged with contravening any provision of these Regulations by reason of that person having been a member of the flight crew of an aircraft on a flight for the purpose of commercial air transport or aerial work the flight shall be treated, without prejudice to the liability of any other person under these Regulations, as not having been for that purpose if he or she proves that he or she did not know or suspect that the flight was for that purpose.
(4) A person who contravenes any of these Regulations commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 6 months or a fine of $5,000 or both.