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AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 16

Content of programs

  (1)   A transport security program for an aviation industry participant must demonstrate that the participant:

  (a)   is aware of the participant's general responsibility to contribute to the maintenance of aviation security; and

  (b)   has developed an integrated, responsible and proactive approach to managing aviation security; and

  (c)   is aware of, and has the capacity to meet, the specific obligations imposed on the participant under this Act; and

  (d)   has taken into account relevant features of the participant's operation in developing activities and strategies for managing aviation security.

  (2)   A transport security program for an aviation industry participant must set out the following:

  (a)   how the participant will manage and co - ordinate aviation security activities within the participant's operation;

  (b)   how the participant will co - ordinate the management of aviation security with other parties (including Commonwealth agencies) who have responsibilities for, or are connected with, aviation;

  (c)   the technology, equipment and procedures to be used by the participant to maintain aviation security;

  (d)   how the participant will respond to aviation security incidents;

  (e)   the practices and procedures to be used by the participant to protect security compliance information;

  (f)   the other aviation industry participants who are covered by, or operating under, the program;

  (g)   the consultation that was undertaken, in preparing the program, by the participant with the other aviation industry participants who are covered by, or operating under, the program.

  (3)   The regulations may prescribe other matters that are to be dealt with in one or more of the following:

  (a)   each transport security program;

  (b)   each transport security program for a particular kind of aviation industry participant;

  (c)   each transport security program for a particular class of a particular kind of aviation industry participant.



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