Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

The Secretary may, by written notice given to the operator of a security controlled airport, establish one or more landside event zones within the landside area of the airport. Each zone must be of a type prescribed under section 33B.

The notice must include a map of the airport that shows the boundaries of the landside event zones.

For each landside event zone, the notice may specify the period (or periods) during which the zone is in force. If no period is specified, the zone is in force from the commencement of the notice.

A notice commences:

when the Secretary gives the notice to the airport operator; or

if a time is specified in the notice—at that time.

Subject to subsection (6), the purpose of landside event zones is to subject those zones, within the landside area of a security controlled airport, to controls some or all of which are different from those applying generally to the landside area.

If the whole or a part of a landside event zone is within a landside security zone, the purpose of the landside event zone is to subject the zone to controls some or all of which are different from:

controls applying generally to the landside security zone; and

controls applying generally to the landside area.

The following requirements do not apply in relation to a landside event zone while the zone is in force:

the requirements prescribed in relation to the landside area;

if the whole or a part of the zone is within a landside security zone—the requirements prescribed in relation to the landside security zone.

To avoid doubt, if a landside event zone ceases to be in force at a particular time, the area previously within the landside event zone is, from that time, subject to controls that apply generally to that area.