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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Aviation security - Designations and security checks - Landside security areas

125: Landside security areas

You could also call this:

"Keeping airports safe: areas with extra security"

The Minister can make some decisions if they think it is necessary to keep people safe from threats to planes and airports. You might wonder what kind of threats they are talking about - it could be something that puts civil aviation at risk. The Minister can also make these decisions if New Zealand needs to work with other countries to keep aviation safe, or if it is necessary to support the main goals of the Civil Aviation Act, including the additional purpose mentioned in section 4(d). The Minister can choose an area inside an airport or navigation installation and declare it a landside security area by putting up signs around it. The Minister gets to decide how long the declaration lasts, but it cannot be more than 30 days.

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Part 5Aviation security
Designations and security checks: Landside security areas

125Landside security areas

  1. The Minister may exercise the power in this section if the Minister considers that it is—

  2. necessary in order to respond to a threat to civil aviation; or
    1. necessary to enable New Zealand to be part of a concerted international response to a threat to aviation security; or
      1. otherwise necessary to support the main purpose of this Act or the additional purpose in section 4(d).

        1. The Minister 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 landside security area.

        2. A declaration made under this section has effect for a period the Minister specifies in it, which must not be more than 30 days.