Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 111

  (1)   Information that is not security compliance information and is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section is aviation security information .

  (2)   Without limiting the kinds of information that may be prescribed by regulations made under subsection   (1), the regulations may prescribe the following kinds of information as aviation security information :

  (a)   statistics relating to the screening of people, vehicles, goods or cargo for entry to cleared areas or cleared zones;

  (b)   statistics relating to the people, vehicles, goods or cargo that go through a screening process and:

  (i)   receive clearance as a result of going through the screening process; or

  (ii)   do not receive clearance as a result of going through the screening process and the reason or reasons for not receiving clearance;

  (c)   information about activities undertaken, or to be undertaken, to ensure that people, vehicles, goods or cargo that have not received clearance are not in cleared areas or cleared zones;

  (d)   information about activities undertaken, or to be undertaken, at an airport for the purposes of safeguarding against unlawful interferences with aviation;

  (e)   information about the controls that apply, or will apply, to airside areas, airside security zones, airside event zones, landside areas, landside security zones or landside event zones.

  (3)   If the Secretary believes, on reasonable grounds, that an aviation industry participant has aviation security information, the Secretary may, by written notice given to the participant, require the participant to give the information to the Secretary.

  (4)   The information must be given within the period and in the form and manner specified in the notice. The period must not be less than 14 days.

  (5)   Without limiting subsection   (4), the Secretary may specify in the notice any one or more of the following ways for the participant to give the information:

  (a)   orally;

  (b)   in writing;

  (c)   by electronic transmission.

  (6)   A person commits an offence if the person fails to comply with a notice under subsection   (3).

Penalty for an offence against this subsection:   45 penalty units.