Aviation
15. Passengers and Baggage
Authors: Staff Legal Eagle
Firm / Chambers:
Last updated: 22 Jun 2015
- Under Commonwealth law the access of persons, goods and vehicles to aircraft and airport areas and zones is controlled.
- Before boarding an aircraft or accessing a specific security controlled zone you must receive clearance. This requires that you or your goods or vehicle go through a screening process. The screening process is carried out by a screening officer in specified circumstances.
- Screening is done to detect explosives in checked baggage as well as weapons and banned items concealed on a person.
- Passengers and carry-on baggage departing for overseas must be screened where the service is a screened air service, the aircraft lands in Australia and the place of the landing is not the aircraft’s final destination.
- More recently checked baggage has been subjected to security screening by x-ray.
- It is generally an offence for you to have a weapon on your person unless you are a police officer.
- A weapon is defined by law as a firearm of any kind or a utensil of any description that has the capacity to be made into a weapon.
- Where permitted there must be secure stowing of weapons removed from any passenger. The weapon must be inaccessible during flight time. The presence of a weapon should not be apparent to passengers.
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