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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Offences and penalties - Security offences

54: Security area and security enhanced area offences

You could also call this:

“Rules and punishments for misbehaving in airport security areas”

If you are in a security area or security enhanced area, you need to follow certain rules. If an aviation security officer asks for your name, address, and reason for being there, you must provide this information. If you don’t, you are breaking the law. The officer will first tell you that you are in a security area or security enhanced area before asking for these details.

If an aviation security officer tells you to leave a security area or security enhanced area, you must do so right away. If you refuse to leave, you are also breaking the law.

If you break these rules in a security area, you could go to jail for up to 3 months or have to pay a fine of up to $2,000. If you break these rules in a security enhanced area, the punishment is more severe. You could go to jail for up to 3 months or have to pay a fine of up to $5,000.

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Part 5 Offences and penalties
Security offences

54Security area and security enhanced area offences

  1. Every person commits an offence who, on being found in a security area or security enhanced area,—

  2. refuses to state his or her name, address, and authority to enter the security area or security enhanced area after—
    1. having been informed that he or she is in a security area or security enhanced area; and
      1. having been requested by an aviation security officer to state those particulars; or
      2. refuses forthwith to leave the security area or security enhanced area after having been ordered by an aviation security officer to do so.

        1. Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) in relation to a—

        2. security area is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $2,000:
          1. security enhanced area is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding $5,000.

            Compare
            • 1964 No 68 s 21E(3), (6)
            • 1976 No 153 s 4
            Notes
            • Section 54 heading: amended, on , by section 7(1) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(1): amended, on , by section 7(2) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(1)(a): amended, on , by section 7(2) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(1)(a)(i): amended, on , by section 7(2) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(1)(b): amended, on , by section 7(2) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(2): substituted, on , by section 7(3) of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 89).
            • Section 54(2)(a): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
            • Section 54(2)(b): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).