84Security areas and security enhanced areas

1. The Director may declare, by a sign or signs affixed at the perimeter of the area, that an area within any security designated aerodrome or security designated navigation installation is a security area.

2. The Director may declare, by appropriate notification, that an area within a security area is a security enhanced area.

3. No person other than a constable on official duties or an aviation security officer on official duties may enter or remain in any security area or security enhanced area unless the person is—

4. wearing an airport identity card issued under the rules (or other identity document approved by the Director under the rules) and worn in accordance with the rules; and
5. authorised by the Director or the airport manager or other person having control of the area.

6. Every person in a security area or security enhanced area shall, on the request of an aviation security officer, state his or her name, address, the purpose of his or her presence in the security area or security enhanced area, and his or her authority to enter it, and shall produce satisfactory evidence of the correctness of his or her stated name and address.

7. Where a person who fails or refuses to provide an aviation security officer with satisfactory evidence of his or her name and address when requested by the aviation security officer, or where a person fails to satisfy the aviation security officer that he or she is authorised to be there, the aviation security officer may order that person to leave the security area or security enhanced area.

8. An aviation security officer, and any person whom he or she calls to his or her assistance, may use such force as may be reasonably necessary to remove from any security area or security enhanced area any person who fails or refuses forthwith to leave the security area or security enhanced area after having been ordered by an aviation security officer to do so under subsection (4).

9. Any person who refuses to comply with subsection (3) or subsection (4) and, after having been warned that he or she commits an offence, persists in its commission, may be detained by an aviation security officer and in that case he or she shall as soon as may be practicable be delivered to a constable.

10. Despite subsection (2), a passenger embarking or disembarking directly through a gateway or thoroughfare in an airport approved for that purpose by the airport manager may pass through a security area or security enhanced area forming part of the gateway or thoroughfare without an airport identity card.

11. Despite subsection (2), a person allowed under the rules may pass through a security area or security enhanced area without an airport identity card.