Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY REGULATIONS 2005 - REG 3.12

  (1)   A person who is facilitating:

  (a)   passenger check - in; or

  (b)   the handling of checked baggage;

at a security controlled airport (regardless of whether, at the time, he or she is in a secure area) must properly display a valid ASIC at all times while doing so.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

Note 1:   For properly displaying , see regulation   1.04; for valid , see regulation   1.05. The passenger and baggage check - in areas are not normally part of the secure area of an airport.

Note 2:   A person who properly displays a valid VIC or TAC, and is supervised by a person who properly displays a valid ASIC, need not display a valid ASIC--see regulation   3.09.

Note 3:   At a time when such a person is outside the secure area, he or she complies with subregulation   (1) if the ASIC is either a red ASIC or a grey ASIC. At a time when he or she is in the secure area, the ASIC must be either a red ASIC or a grey ASIC in accordance with regulation   3.03.

  (2)   A contravention of subregulation   (1) is an offence of strict liability.

  (3)   In relation to a security controlled airport from or to which no screened air service operates, subregulation   (1) has effect only during traffic periods.