Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

The regulations may, for the purposes of safeguarding against unlawful interference with aviation, prescribe requirements in relation to the landside area of a security controlled airport.

Without limiting the matters that may be dealt with by regulations made under subsection (1), the regulations may deal with the following:

access to the landside area (including conditions of entry, the issue and use of security passes and other identification systems);

the patrolling of the landside area;

the provision of lighting, fencing and storage facilities;

the identification or marking of the landside area;

the approval of building works within, or adjacent to, the landside area;

the screening of people, vehicles or goods (other than cargo) for entry to the landside area;

requirements relating to the entry of cargo to the landside area;

the security checking (including background checking) of persons who have access to the landside area;

the movement, management or operation of aircraft, vehicles and other machinery in the landside area;

the maintenance of the integrity of the landside area;

access to aircraft (including unattended aircraft) from the landside area;

the management of people and goods (including the management of unaccompanied, unidentified or suspicious goods) in the landside area;

the management (including the sale or disposal) of vehicles or goods abandoned in the landside area.

Regulations made under this section may prescribe penalties for offences against those regulations. The penalties must not exceed:

for an offence committed by an airport operator, an aircraft operator or a screening authority—250 penalty units; or

for an offence committed by an aviation industry participant, other than an accredited air cargo agent or a participant covered by paragraph (a)—100 penalty units; or

for an offence committed by an accredited air cargo agent or any other person—50 penalty units.

If a body corporate is convicted of an offence against regulations made under this section, subsection 4B(3) of the Crimes Act 1914 allows a court to impose fines of up to 5 times the penalties stated above.