Singapore legislation

Section 69

of Air Navigation Act 1966

Section 69

Aviation security regulations

Amended by18/201816/2015

(1)

In the interests of safety or security within the civil aviation system, the Minister may make regulations in the Gazette prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Part, including but not limited to all or any of the following matters:

(a)

the matters to be contained in each security programme, each security programme for a particular kind of aviation industry participant, or each security programme for a particular class of a particular kind of aviation industry participant;

(b)

the requirements with respect to security programmes, including —

(i)

requiring aviation industry participants to prepare or alter such programmes;

(ii)

requiring the approval by the National Civil Aviation Security Authority of programmes and of alterations of them;

(iii)

empowering the National Civil Aviation Security Authority to prepare and alter such programmes; and

(iv)

requiring specified persons in addition to aviation industry participants to comply with such security programmes as in force at a particular time or from time to time;

(c)

the requirements relating to —

(i)

the management and control of passengers (including persons in custody) on board an aircraft;

(ii)

the security features on an aircraft;

(iii)

pre-flight checks of aircraft cabins and other parts of an aircraft;

(iv)

procedures to be used and measures to be taken in relation to baggage that is loaded, or is intended to be loaded, onto a prescribed aircraft;

(v)

unattended aircraft; or

(vi)

such other matters for the purposes of safeguarding against acts of unlawful interference;

(d)

the prevention of interference with aerodromes and other aviation-related facilities;

(e)

the control of access to different parts of an aerodrome and other aviation-related facility, including —

(i)

conditions of entry, the issue and use of security passes and other identification systems;

(ii)

the provision of lighting, fencing and storage facilities in the different parts of aerodromes and other aviation‑related facilities;

(iii)

requirements for the approval of building works within, or adjacent to, the different parts of aerodromes or other aviation-related facilities;

(iv)

the screening of people, vehicles or goods (other than cargo) for entry to different parts of aerodromes or other aviation‑related facilities;

(v)

requirements relating to the entry of cargo to the different parts of aerodromes or other aviation‑related facilities;

(vi)

the security checking (including background checking) of persons who have access to the different parts of aerodromes or other aviation‑related facilities;

(vii)

the movement, management or operation of aircraft (including unattended aircraft), vehicles and other machinery in the different parts of aerodromes or other aviation‑related facilities; and

(viii)

the management of people and goods (including the management of unaccompanied, unidentified or suspicious goods) in the different parts of aerodromes or other aviation‑related facilities and the sale or disposal of vehicles or goods abandoned therein;

(f)

the control of things likely to be hazardous to aviation security, including but not limited to any of the following:

(i)

the safe carriage of firearms and other dangerous or hazardous goods or substances by air;

(ii)

the construction, use, or operation of anything likely to be hazardous to aviation security;

(g)

the requirements for or in relation to the giving of security directives under section 67;

(h)

the fees to be paid in respect of the issue, validation or renewal of any licence, registration or other document required by the regulations and in respect of any other matters in respect of which it appears to the Minister to be expedient for the purpose of the regulations to charge fees.

(2)

The regulations made under this section may provide that any contravention of any provision of the regulations shall be an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding $100,000 or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or with both.

(3)

To avoid doubt, an aviation industry participant may at any one time be 2 or more of the following:

(a)

an airport operator who holds an airport licence under the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Act 2009 or who is exempted from holding such a licence under section 43 of that Act;

(b)

an aircraft operator;

(c)

a consignor;

(d)

an air cargo agent;

(e)

a person who occupies or controls an area of an airport (whether under a lease, sublease or other arrangement);

(f)

the Authority;

(g)

a contractor who provides services to any person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f),and this Part and the aviation security regulations may prescribe requirements and duties or liabilities on the aviation industry participant accordingly, and may at any one time impose the same duty or liability on 2 or more aviation industry participants, whether in the same capacity or in different capacities.

Amended by18/2018

(4)

All aviation security regulations made under this section must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.

(5)

The provisions of any order made by the Minister before 1 April 2014 in relation to aviation security and in force immediately before that date continue in force as if made under this Part, and may from time to time be amended or revoked under this section.[17F

Amended by16/2015