Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00432:section:31a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00432
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 31A
Character Range: 61136–63151

31A  Airside event zones

Establishing airside event zones
 (1) The Secretary may, by written notice given to the operator of a security controlled airport, establish one or more airside event zones within the airside area of the airport. Each zone must be of a type prescribed under section 31B.
 (2) The notice must include a map of the airport that shows the boundaries of each airside event zone.
 (3) For each airside event zone, the notice may specify the period (or periods) during which the zone is in force. If no period is specified, the zone is in force from the commencement of the notice.
 (4) A notice commences:
 (a) when the Secretary gives the notice to the airport operator; or
 (b) if a time is specified in the notice—at that time.
The time specified must not be earlier than the time the notice is given.

Purpose of airside event zones
 (5) Subject to subsection (6), the purpose of airside event zones is to subject those zones, within the airside area of a security controlled airport, to controls some or all of which are different from those applying generally to the airside area.
 (6) If the whole or a part of an airside event zone is within an airside security zone, the purpose of the airside event zone is to subject the zone to controls some or all of which are different from:
 (a) controls applying generally to the airside security zone; and
 (b) controls applying generally to the airside area.

Requirements applying in airside event zones
 (7) The following requirements do not apply in relation to an airside event zone while the zone is in force:
 (a) the requirements prescribed in relation to the airside area;
 (b) if the whole or a part of the zone is within an airside security zone—the requirements prescribed in relation to the airside security zone.
 (8) To avoid doubt, if an airside event zone ceases to be in force at a particular time, the area previously within the airside event zone is, from that time, subject to controls that apply generally to that area.