Power to issue security directive to aircraft operator or airport operator
7.—(1) The Commissioner may issue to any aircraft operator or airport operator a security directive requiring that person to take such security measures as may be specified in that security directive.
(2) The Commissioner shall inform the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore of every security directive issued to an aircraft operator or airport operator and may consider any advice given by that Authority with respect to that security directive.
(3) The security measures that may be specified in a security directive under sub-paragraph (1) include, but are not limited to, measures for —
(a)
preventing or deterring the introduction or unauthorised carriage on board any aircraft of any firearm, ammunition, weapon, incendiary device or explosive, or other substance or thing that, by reason of its nature or condition, may endanger the safety of the aircraft or the safety of persons or property on board the aircraft;
(b)
controlling access to the airside and any security restricted area to prevent unauthorised entry;
[S 481/2012 wef 26/09/2012]
(c)
preventing any person from having unauthorised access to any aircraft;
(d)
identifying and screening persons and vehicles having access to security restricted areas;
(da)
the application of security controls (including screening) to persons and vehicles having access to the airside;
[S 481/2012 wef 26/09/2012]
(e)
pre-boarding screening of originating and transfer passengers and their cabin baggage;
(f)
protecting passengers and their cabin baggage from unauthorised interference from the point of screening until the point of boarding the aircraft on which they are to be carried;
(g)
identification, accountability and authorisation of all hold baggage for carriage, screening of all hold baggage and protection from unauthorised interference from the point of screening or acceptance by the aircraft operator, whichever is the earlier, until the departure of the aircraft on which the hold baggage is carried;
[S 481/2012 wef 26/09/2012]
(h)
ensuring that all baggage, mail and other cargo to be taken on board any aircraft is accepted for that purpose only by an employee or other duly authorised agent or representative of the aircraft operator;
(i)
ensuring that all cargo, mail, catering, stores and supplies are subjected to appropriate security controls (including screening) prior to being loaded onto an aircraft and are thereafter protected from unauthorised interference until the departure of the aircraft;
[S 481/2012 wef 26/09/2012]
(j)
ensuring that disembarking passengers do not leave items on board an aircraft;
(k)
ensuring that unauthorised persons are prevented from entering the flight crew compartment of an aircraft during flight;
(l)
ensuring the protection of aircraft, and of persons and property on board the aircraft, against damage or injury where, because of a threat or warning having been received or otherwise, there is reason to believe that there exists a danger to the safety of the aircraft or to the safety of those persons or that property;
(m)
developing requirements for the carriage of special categories of passengers, including law enforcement officers and in-flight security officers and their carriage of weapons on board an aircraft; and
(n)
ensuring compliance with the NCASP, the airport security programme or operator security programme approved under paragraph 6, as the case may be, the National Aviation Security Training Programme and such other requirements as the Commissioner may deem necessary for the implementation of aviation security measures.
(4) An aircraft operator or airport operator to whom a security directive is issued under sub-paragraph (1) shall appoint a person to be responsible for planning, developing and implementing, and monitoring to confirm the effective implementation of, the security measures specified in the security directive, and shall inform the Commissioner of his particulars.
(5) A security directive under sub-paragraph (1) shall specify a date before which the operator is required to comply with the security directive.
(6) Any person who refuses or, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a security directive issued to him under this paragraph shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
(7) A security directive issued to a person under sub-paragraph (1) may at any time be varied or revoked by a further security directive issued to him by the Commissioner.