Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person is a Secretary - approved VIC issuer who is approved to issue VICs in more than one airport; and
(b) the Secretary - approved VIC issuer (or its agent) issues a VIC to a person; and
(c) the person to whom the VIC is issued has held a VIC, issued by or on behalf of the Secretary - approved VIC issuer, for any of those airports for a combined total of 28 or more days in the previous 12 months.
Example: If a Secretary - approved VIC issuer has, in the previous 12 months, issued a VIC to a person for an airport for a total of 18 days, and issued a VIC to the person for another airport for a total of 10 days, the issuer has issued a VIC to the person for any of the airports for a combined total of 28 days in the previous 12 months.
Note: An airport operator or Secretary - approved VIC issuer is responsible for the actions of its agents under subregulation 6.37G(5).
(2) A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) applies to a Secretary - approved VIC issuer for a VIC; and
(b) the person knows that he or she has held a VIC, issued by or on behalf of the Secretary - approved VIC issuer, for a total of 28 or more days in the previous 12 months.
(3) Subregulation (4) applies if:
(a) a Secretary - approved VIC issuer (or its agent) issues VICs for a particular airport during a particular month; and
(b) any of the VICs were issued to a person who, by the last day of the month, had held a VIC for the airport for a total of 20 or more days in the previous 12 months; and
(c) screened air services are operated from the airport.
(4) The Secretary - approved VIC issuer must give to the operator of the airport, by the seventh day of the following month, the following details in relation to each VIC mentioned in paragraph (3)(b):
(a) the name, date of birth and address of the person to whom the VIC was issued; and
(b) the date the VIC was issued; and
(c) how many days the VIC is valid for.
(4A) Paragraph (4)(a) does not apply in relation to a residential address that is not required to be contained on a particular register because of subregulation 6.25A(3).
(5) A Secretary - approved VIC issuer must comply with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 1 to the Privacy Act 1988 in relation to information about VICs or VIC holders.