### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

29. Provisions relating to security direction
(1) A security direction shall be issued in writing.
(2) A security direction may—
(a) be either of a general or of a specific character;
(b) require any measure to be taken, or require any person not to cause or permit anything to be done, at such time and during such period as may be specified in the direction;
(c) require different measures be taken in relation to different kinds or level of threat specified in the direction;
(d) specify—
(i) the minimum number of persons to be employed for the purposes of implementing any measures required to be taken by the person to whom it is issued;
(ii) the manner in which persons employed for such purposes are to be deployed; and
(iii) the qualifications which persons employed for such purposes are to have;
(e) specify any apparatus, equipment or other aids to be used for such purposes.
(3) A security direction to any person not to cause or permit anything to be done shall be construed as requiring him to take all such steps as in any particular circumstances are practicable and necessary to prevent that thing from being done.
(4) A security direction may be issued to a person appearing to the Authority to be about to become a person to whom section 28(3) applies, but a security direction issued to a person by virtue of this subsection shall not take effect until he becomes such a person, and, in relation to a security direction so issued, the preceding provisions of this section shall apply with the necessary modifications.

### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

30. Authority may grant exception
(1) If it appears to the Authority that an exception should be made to a security direction or any part or provision thereof as a matter of urgency in any particular case he may, by a notification given otherwise than in writing to the person for the time being subject to the direction, authorize that person to disregard the requirements of the direction—
(a) in relation to such—
(i) aircraft or class of aircraft;
(ii) aerodrome or part of an aerodrome;
(iii) land outside an aerodrome;
(iv) property;
(v) activity; or
(vi) person;
(b) on such occasion; or
(c) for such period,
as he may specify, and the security direction shall have effect in relation to such person in that case subject to any such exception.
(2) Any notification given to any person under subsection (1) with respect to any security direction shall cease to have effect—
(a) if a security direction is subsequently issued under section 28(4) to that person revoking or modifying the original security direction, from the date on which the new security direction becomes effective; or
(b) if no such new direction is issued within the period of 30 days after the day on which the notification is given, upon the expiry of that period.
(3) Any notification given to any person under subsection (1) shall be regarded to have been given if it is communicated by whatever means—
(a) in the case of an individual, to that individual;
(b) in the case of a body corporate, to any director or the chief executive officer or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate;
(c) in the case of a partnership, to any partner of the partnership in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be.

31. Objection to security direction
(1) A person to whom a security direction is issued may serve on the Authority a notice in writing objecting to the direction, on the grounds that the measures specified in the direction—
(a) are unnecessary and should be dispensed with; or
(b) are excessively onerous or inconvenient and should be modified.
(2) Where the person to whom a security direction is issued serves a notice under subsection (1) objecting to the direction, the Authority shall consider the grounds of the objection and, if so requested by the objector, shall afford to him a reasonable opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a public officer appointed by the Authority for this purpose, who shall then decide on the objection by—
(a) confirming the direction as originally issued;
(b) confirming the direction subject to one or more modifications specified in the notice served under subsection (3); or
(c) withdrawing the direction.
(3) A decision under subsection (2) shall be notified to the objector by the Authority by a notice in writing.

### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

32. Appeal
(1) A person who objects under section 31(1) and is aggrieved by a decision of the Authority made under section 31(2)(a) or (b) in respect of him may, within 28 days after the receipt of the notification of the decision, appeal to the Chief Secretary for Administration by lodging a notice of appeal with the Chief Secretary for Administration.
(2) On an appeal under subsection (1) against a decision of the Authority, the Chief Secretary for Administration may confirm, vary or revoke the decision.
(3) An appeal under subsection (1) shall not affect the operation of the security direction in respect of which the appeal is brought.
(Amended L.N. 362 of 1997)

33. Purposes to which this Part applies
The purposes to which this Part applies are the protection against acts of violence—
(a) of aircraft, and of persons or property on board aircraft;
(b) of aerodromes, and of such persons or property as (in the case of persons) are present in any part of an aerodrome or (in the case of property) forms part of an aerodrome or is in any part of an aerodrome; and
(c) of air navigation installations which do not form part of an aerodrome.

### Aviation Security Ordinance 《航空保安條例》

34. Power for the Authority to require information
(1) The Authority may, by notice in writing given to any person who—
(a) is the operator of one or more aircraft registered or operating in Hong Kong;
(b) is the manager of an aerodrome;
(c) occupies any land forming part of an aerodrome; or
(d) is permitted to have access to a restricted area in an aerodrome for the purposes of the business carried on by him,
require that person to provide the Authority with such information specified in the notice as the Authority may require in connection with the exercise by the Authority of his functions under this Part or any incident which impinges on aviation security.
(2) A notice under subsection (1) shall specify a date (not being earlier than 7 days after the day on which the notice is served) before which the information required by the notice in accordance with subsection (1) is to be furnished to the Authority.
(3) Any such notice may also require the person to whom it is given, after he has furnished to the Authority the information required by the notice in accordance with subsection (1), to inform the Authority if at any time the information previously furnished to the Authority (including any information furnished in pursuance of a requirement imposed by virtue of this subsection) is rendered inaccurate by any change of circumstances (including the taking of any further measures for purposes to which this Part applies or the alteration or discontinuance of any measures already being taken).
(4) In so far as such a notice requires further information to be furnished to the Authority in accordance with subsection (3), it shall require that information to be furnished to him before the end of such period not being less than 7 days after the day on which the change of circumstances occurs as is specified in the notice for the purposes of this subsection.
(5) Any person who—
(a) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him by a notice under this section; or
(b) in furnishing any information so required, makes a statement which he knows to be false or misleading in a material particular, or recklessly makes a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular,
commits an offence and is liable—
(i) on summary conviction, to a fine at level 3;
(ii) on conviction on indictment, to a fine at level 5 and to imprisonment for 2 years.
(6) A notice given to a person under subsection (1) may at any time—
(a) be revoked by a notice in writing given to him by the Authority; or
(b) be varied by a further notice under subsection (1).