LEADie is correct. Just reading up on Strict liability this morning, CASA's own blurb from legal service group in Flight Safety Aust Sept-Oct 2007 says:
‘If a law that creates an offence provides that the offence is an offence of strict liability,............... blah blah blah....
So, in other words, if CASA, by their choice, puts into a reg. "this is an offence of strict liability" (whatever the words they use are) then job's done and dusted.
We don't seem the same language used in motor car road rules, or boats etc.
Aviators just want clear and concise regs, such as FAA:
"You may......................."