Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY REGULATIONS 2005 - REG 4.22T

         (1)   A person who conducts a retail business (the business ) within a secure area of an airport commits an offence if:

                (a)    someone working in the business seals a LAG product purchased by a person (the customer ) in a bag that is represented to the customer by the business to be a security tamper-evident bag; and

               (b)    either or both of the following apply:

                          (i)    the bag does not comply with the technical specifications for security tamper-evident bags set out in the ICAO guidance material;

                         (ii)    the security requirements set out in regulation 4.22S have not been satisfied for the bag.

         (2)   For paragraph (1) (a), a business is taken to have represented to a customer that a bag is a security tamper-evident bag if signage in the premises of the business or anything said to the customer by someone working in the business would reasonably lead the customer to believe that an item placed in the bag can be taken through a screening point for LAG products at an airport outside Australia without being surrendered.

Penalty:   20 penalty units.