Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913:reg:8:p27
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00913
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 27/133)
Character Range: 129384–132051

area other than for a lawful purpose.
Penalty for a contravention of subregulation (2): 5 penalty units.

Subdivision 3.2.2—Display and use of ASICs, VICs and TACs outside secure areas

3.12  Persons facilitating passenger check‑in or baggage handling outside secure areas
 (1) A person who is facilitating:
 (a) passenger check‑in; or
 (b) the handling of checked baggage;
at a security controlled airport (regardless of whether, at the time, he or she is in a secure area) must properly display a valid ASIC at all times while doing so.
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
Note 1: For properly displaying, see regulation 1.04; for valid, see regulation 1.05. The passenger and baggage check‑in areas are not normally part of the secure area of an airport.
Note 2: A person who properly displays a valid VIC or TAC, and is supervised by a person who properly displays a valid ASIC, need not display a valid ASIC—see regulation 3.09.
Note 3: At a time when such a person is outside the secure area, he or she complies with subregulation (1) if the ASIC is either a red ASIC or a grey ASIC. At a time when he or she is in the secure area, the ASIC must be either a red ASIC or a grey ASIC in accordance with regulation 3.03.
 (2) A contravention of subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.
 (3) In relation to a security controlled airport from or to which no screened air service operates, subregulation (1) has effect only during traffic periods.

Division 3.3—Control of airside areas and zones—physical security

Subdivision 3.3.1—Preliminary

3.13  Definitions for Division
  In this Division:
entry exempt person, in relation to an airside area or a security restricted area, means any of the following:
 (a) a law enforcement officer who is in uniform or who produces his or her identity card as a law enforcement officer;
 (b) a member of the Defence Force who is:
 (i) responding to an event or threat of unlawful interference with aviation; or
 (ii) responding to an emergency in Australia or overseas; or
 (iii) on or conducting training exercises;
 (c) an officer of Customs who:
 (i) is a member of a Counter‑Terrorism Unit of the Australian Border Force; and
 (ii) is wearing a Counter‑Terrorism Unit uniform; and
 (iii) has attached to that uniform an identification card, issued by the Australian Border Force, that identifies the officer as such a member and that the officer would be properly displaying if the identification card were an ASIC; and
 (iv) is performing duties in the area;
 (d) a person in custody;
 (e) a person escorting a person in custody;
 (f) an employee, contractor or volunteer of an ambulance, rescue or fire service, or of