Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913:reg:8:p67
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 67/133)
Character Range: 230354–232984

an unauthorised person between the time it is checked in and the time it is made available (for example, by being placed on a baggage carousel) for collection at the end of the prescribed air service.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
Note: For requirements for the control and supervision of baggage that is screened and cleared before it is checked in, see regulation 4.24.
 (2) If the operator of a prescribed aircraft knows that a passenger's baggage contains a firearm, the aircraft operator must take reasonable precautions to ensure that the baggage is not retrieved by any person other than the passenger.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.

4.20  Unaccompanied baggage
  For the purposes of screening and clearing, unaccompanied baggage is to be treated as cargo.

4.21  Control etc of baggage loading
 (1) There must be attached, to each item of checked baggage that is carried on board an aircraft that is operating a domestic or international regular public transport operation or domestic or international open charter operation, a tag that:
 (a) identifies the relevant flight of the aircraft; or
 (b) if the item is carried on board the aircraft in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (6)(d)—identifies the original flight referred to in paragraph 4.21B(b).
 (2) The tag must be attached to the item before the start of the flight referred to in paragraph (1)(a).
 (3) Before the start of the flight, a record must be created for each such item that is carried on board the aircraft, and the record must be kept until at least 2 days after the end of the flight.
 (4) The record must:
 (a) identify the passenger who checked in the item; and
 (b) record the number of the flight for which the passenger was checked in; and
 (c) match the item to a passenger on board the aircraft, or specify the circumstances of its carriage if the person who checked in the item is not on board the aircraft when it departs.
 (5) The operator of a prescribed air service commits an offence if any of subregulations (1) to (4) are not complied with in respect of every item of checked baggage that is carried on an aircraft that is operating the prescribed air service.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (6) The operator of a prescribed air service commits an offence if, before an aircraft (the departing aircraft) that is operating the prescribed air service departs, every item of checked baggage that is carried on board the departing aircraft is not matched to:
 (a) a passenger who is on board the departing aircraft; or
 (b) a passenger who was properly checked in for a flight of an aircraft that has departed; or
 (c) a passenger who does