Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913:reg:8:p81
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 81/133)
Character Range: 264898–267676

of the Act, a screening authority for a security controlled airport, or part of the airport, commits an offence if:
 (a) a screened air service operates from the airport or part of the airport, as the case may be; and
 (b) the screening authority:
 (i) carries out screening and clearing of baggage for the air service at the airport or part of the airport; and
 (ii) is required to carry out screening of the baggage in accordance with the specifications of a binding screening notice; and
 (c) baggage belonging to passengers of the air service must be cleared before it is checked in; and
 (d) the screening authority does not have appropriate procedures in place to ensure that an item cannot be placed in or on any cleared baggage during the supervision or control period.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (2) In this regulation:
binding screening notice, in relation to a screening authority, means a notice:
 (a) given under regulation 4.17(1); and
 (b) binding on the authority.
Note: Subregulation 4.17(3) sets out the requirement for a binding notice.
supervision or control period means the period that starts when baggage is cleared and ends when baggage is checked in.

4.25  International air services transiting Australia—inbound
 (1) This regulation applies in relation to checked baggage on board an inbound international air service that becomes a screened air service by transiting through an airport in Australia.
 (2) An item of the baggage must be cleared at the aircraft's first point of call in Australia if:
 (a) the aircraft's operator cannot demonstrate that the item:
 (i) was screened at the port where the baggage was loaded on the aircraft outside Australia; and
 (ii) has been kept continuously secure since it was screened; or
 (b) the Secretary, by notice in writing, so requires.

4.26  International air services transferring passengers in Australia—inbound
 (1) This regulation applies in relation to checked baggage on board an inbound international air service if some or all of its passengers are to be transferred to a screened air service in Australia.
 (2) An item of the baggage must be cleared before it is transferred to the other air service.

4.27  International air services transiting Australia—outbound
 (1) This regulation applies in relation to checked baggage on board an outbound international air service that becomes a screened air service by transiting through an airport in Australia.
 (2) An item of the baggage must be cleared at the aircraft's last point of departure from Australia if:
 (a) the aircraft's operator cannot demonstrate that the item:
 (i) was cleared at any of the aircraft's previous points of call in Australia; and
 (ii) has been kept continuously secure since it was cleared; or
 (b) the Secretary, by