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2004
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
THE
SENATE
Presented and read a first
time
Aviation
Security Amendment Bill 2004
No. ,
2004
(Transport and Regional
Services)
A Bill for an Act to amend laws
relating to aviation security, and for related purposes
Contents
Aviation Transport Security Act
2004 3
Civil Aviation Act
1988 6
Aviation Transport Security Act
2004 8
Aviation Transport Security (Consequential Amendments and Transitional
Provisions) Act
2004 8
A Bill for an Act to amend laws relating to aviation
security, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Aviation Security Amendment Act
2004.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the
table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its
terms.
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Column 2 |
Column 3 |
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Provision(s) |
Commencement |
Date/Details |
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1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by
this table |
The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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2. Schedule 1 |
The later of: (a) the start of the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;
and (b) immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Aviation
Transport Security Act 2004. |
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3. Schedule 2, items 1 and 2 |
The later of: (a) the start of the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;
and (b) immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Aviation
Transport Security Act 2004. |
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4. Schedule 2, item 3 |
The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act
as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded
to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part
of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any
published version of this Act.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
Aviation Transport Security
Act 2004
1 Section 9
Insert:
Director of CASA means the Director of Aviation Safety
appointed under section 84 of the Civil Aviation Act 1988.
2 Section 9
Insert:
security designated authorisation has the meaning given by
the regulations.
3 At the end of section 39
Add:
; (h) security status checking (Division 9).
4 At the end of Part 4
Add:
This Division will facilitate the security status checking of applicants
for, and holders of, certain authorisations.
The Division enables an adverse security status determination to be made in
respect of a person. If a determination is made, any such authorisation that the
person has applied for will be refused, and any such authorisation that the
person holds will be cancelled or suspended.
The regulations will prescribe details relating to security status checking
and the making of adverse security status determinations.
(1) The Secretary may determine in writing that a person has an adverse
aviation security status.
(2) If the Secretary makes such a determination, the Secretary must give a
copy of the determination to the following:
(a) the person;
(b) CASA.
(3) As soon as reasonably practicable after such a determination is made,
CASA must:
(a) if the person is an applicant for a security designated
authorisation—refuse the application under this paragraph; or
(b) if the person is the holder of a security designated
authorisation—suspend or cancel the authorisation under this
paragraph.
(4) The exercise of the power to determine that a person has an adverse
aviation security status is taken to be prescribed administrative action in
respect of the person for the purposes of Part IV of the Australian
Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.
(1) Regulations may be made:
(a) providing for matters to which the Secretary must have regard for the
purposes of deciding whether or not to determine that a person has an adverse
aviation security status; and
(b) specifying circumstances in which the Secretary must determine that a
person has an adverse aviation security status; and
(c) specifying circumstances in which the Secretary may determine that a
person has an adverse aviation security status; and
(d) providing for matters relating to the carrying out of security status
checking; and
(e) authorising the use or disclosure of information (including personal
information within the meaning of the Privacy Act 1988) for the purposes
of, or in relation to, security status checking; and
(f) specifying procedures and other matters relating to the determination
of applications for security designated authorisations, including, but not
limited to, delaying the determination of such applications pending the outcome
of security status checking; and
(g) specifying procedures and other matters relating to the issue,
suspension or cancellation by CASA of security designated authorisations or the
refusal by CASA to issue security designated authorisations; and
(h) providing that applicants for, or holders of, security designated
authorisations may request security status checking to be undertaken;
and
(i) specifying the consequences of a failure to make a request of a kind
mentioned in regulations under paragraph (h); and
(j) providing for the collection of fees by CASA on behalf of the
Commonwealth, being fees prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this
Division; and
(k) conferring the function of determining under subsection 74G(1) that a
person has an adverse security status upon CASA (in addition to, but not instead
of, the Secretary); and
(l) empowering the Director of CASA to delegate all or any of CASA’s
functions and powers under this Division to a person holding, or performing the
duties of, an office or position within CASA that is at a level equivalent to
that of an SES employee; and
(m) in relation to any other matter related to the operation of this
Division.
(2) If regulations under paragraph (1)(k) are in force:
(a) references in section 74G and in this section to the Secretary
are to be taken to include references to CASA; and
(b) paragraph 74G(2)(b) does not apply to a determination by CASA under
subsection 74G(1); and
(c) paragraph 126(1)(f) has effect as if the reference in subsection
126(1) to the Secretary included a reference to CASA.
This Division has effect despite anything in the Civil Aviation Act
1988 or regulations under that Act.
5 At the end of
section 126
Add:
; or (f) to determine under subsection 74G(1) that a person has an adverse
aviation security status.
(2) To avoid doubt, paragraph (1)(f) does not permit the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal to review an adverse security assessment or a
qualified security assessment other than in accordance with the provisions of
the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 and the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.
(3) In subsection (2):
adverse security assessment and qualified security
assessment have the same meanings as in the Australian Security
Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.
6 After subsection 127(2)
Insert:
(2A) The Secretary may, by writing, delegate all or any of his or her
powers and functions under Division 9 of Part 4 to a person holding,
or performing the duties of, an office or position within CASA that is at a
level equivalent to that of an SES employee.
7 After paragraph 9(3)(ca)
Insert:
(cb) any functions conferred on CASA under the Aviation Transport
Security Act 2004;
8 Subsection 9(5)
Repeal the subsection.
9 After paragraph 98(3)(r)
Insert:
(ra) formulating a scheme in relation to security status
checking;
10 At the end of subsection
98(3)
Add:
; (v) prescribing fees (either by specifying amounts or by prescribing a
method of calculation) in relation to services, applications or requests, or the
doing of anything by CASA under the Aviation Transport Security Act
2004.
Aviation Transport Security
Act 2004
1 Section 9 (paragraph (f) of the
definition of aviation industry participant)
Omit “(e)”, substitute “(ea)”.
Aviation Transport Security
(Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act
2004
2 After paragraph 1(2)(b) of
Schedule 3
Insert:
(ba) providing for airport security programs approved under the old Act to
continue to be taken to be in force (with any prescribed alterations and for
such time as is prescribed) as transport security programs under the new Act;
and
(bb) providing for ASIC programs and international cargo security programs
approved under the old Act to continue to be taken to be in force (with any
prescribed alterations and for such time as is prescribed) as transport security
programs under the new Act, or as such other programs under the new Act as are
prescribed by the regulations; and
3 Transitional provision
The exercise or purported exercise (whether before, at or after the
commencement of this item) of the power under regulation 5 of the Air
Navigation (Aviation Security Status Checking) Regulations 2004 to determine
that a person has an adverse aviation security status is taken for all purposes
to be, and is taken for all purposes always to have been, prescribed
administrative action in respect of the person for the purposes of Part IV
of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.