Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY REGULATIONS 2005 - REG 3.16

         (1)   This regulation sets out the additional security requirements applicable to an airside security zone that is a security restricted area.

         (2)   This regulation begins to have effect in relation to an airport when the Secretary establishes such a zone for the airport.

         (3)   The responsible aviation industry participant must ensure that:

                (a)    the area can be entered only by:

                          (i)    a person authorised to do so who:

                                   (A)     properly displays a valid red ASIC; or

                                   (B)     properly displays a valid VIC, a valid TAC or a valid grey ASIC and is supervised by someone authorised to enter the area who properly displays a valid red ASIC ; or

                         (ii)    an exempt person; or

                        (iii)    a vehicle driven by:

                                   (A)     a person who is authorised to enter the area and who:

                                                (I)     properly displays a valid red ASIC; or

                                               (II)     properly displays a valid VIC, a valid TAC or a valid grey ASIC and is supervised by someone authorised to enter the area who properly displays a valid red ASIC ; or

                                   (B)     an exempt person; or

                        (iv)    a person who:

                                   (A)     holds a ticket for carriage on an aircraft that will take its passengers on board through the security restricted area; and

                                   (B)     is moving reasonably directly from the terminal exit to the aircraft, under the supervision of the aircraft or airport operator, for the purpose of boarding; or

                         (v)    a person who arrived on board an aircraft that disembarked its passengers into the security restricted area, and is moving reasonably directly, under the supervision of the aircraft or airport operator, from the aircraft to the terminal entry; and

               (b)    if access to the zone or any part of it is not continuously controlled, the zone or part is inspected before it is used; and

                (c)    signs, at least 0.4 m wide by 0.3 m high, and otherwise complying with subregulation (4), are permanently fixed at the boundary of the zone so that the warnings and statement on at least 1 sign can be seen from every entrance to the zone; and

               (d)    if there is no security barrier, those signs are placed in such a way that anybody entering the zone has reasonable warning that it is a security restricted area.

Penalty:

                (a)    if the offender is an airport operator or an aircraft operator -- 200 penalty units; or

               (b)    in any other case -- 100 penalty units.

Note for paragraph (3) (a)    For properly displays , see regulation 1.04; for valid , see regulation 1.05.

         (4)   A sign required by paragraph (3) (c) must be in the following form:

         (7)   If the secure area of a security controlled airport from or to which no screened air service operates is entered, during a period that is not a traffic period for the airport, by a person, or a vehicle driven by a person, not displaying a valid ASIC, VIC or TAC, that entry does not constitute a contravention by the airport operator of subparagraph (3) (a) (i) or (iii).