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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Aviation security - Aviation security offences

166: Refusal to give particulars or to leave airside security area or security enhanced area

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"Rules for Giving Information and Leaving Secure Airport Areas"

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If you are in an airside security area or security enhanced area, you must give your name, address, and date of birth if asked by an authorised security person. You also need to say why you are there and what gives you permission to be in that area. If you refuse to give this information, you can get in trouble. You can also get in trouble if you refuse to leave the area when an authorised security person tells you to leave immediately. If you break these rules, you might have to pay a fine or go to prison, depending on which type of area you were in, and the fine can be up to $2,500 for an airside security area or up to $5,000 for a security enhanced area.

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Part 5Aviation security
Aviation security offences

166Refusal to give particulars or to leave airside security area or security enhanced area

  1. A person commits an offence if, on being found in an airside security area or security enhanced area, the person—

  2. refuses to state the person’s name, address, and date of birth and the purpose of the person’s presence in, and their authority to enter, the airside security area or security enhanced area after—
    1. having been informed that the person is in an airside security area or security enhanced area; and
      1. having been requested by an authorised security person to state those particulars; or
      2. refuses to leave the airside security area or security enhanced area immediately after being ordered by an authorised security person to do so.

        1. A person who commits an offence against subsection (1) in relation to—

        2. an airside security area is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $2,500, or both:
          1. a security enhanced area is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to a fine not exceeding $5,000, or both.

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