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AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 89E

Requests to leave aircraft, airport or areas or zones

  (1)   If an eligible customs officer reasonably suspects that a person on a prescribed aircraft, or in an area or zone of a security controlled airport, is committing, or has committed, an offence against this Act, the officer may request the person to leave:

  (a)   the aircraft; or

  (b)   the area or zone; or

  (c)   the airport.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   a request has been made to the person under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the person fails to comply with the request.

Penalty for an offence against this subsection:   50 penalty units.


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