Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act, 1998
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Prohibition on bringing certain dangerous articles within airport. |
50.—(1) An authorised officer may refuse entry to an airport to any person who has in his or her possession any article or substance (including nuclear material within the meaning of the Radiological Protection Act, 1991 ) which, in the opinion of the authorised officer, is likely to endanger persons or property. | |
(2) If a person, who has been refused entry into an airport under this section, enters the airport, that person shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(3) A person shall not have in his or her possession in, or bring or cause to be brought into, any part of an airport— | ||
(a) a firearm, or any article having the appearance of a firearm, whether capable of being discharged or not, | ||
(b) an explosive, or any article manufactured or adapted so as to have the appearance of being an explosive, whether it is capable of producing a practical effect by explosion or not, | ||
(c) any article marked or labelled so as to indicate that it is, or it contains, an explosive, or | ||
(d) any article not being an article referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) but which is made or adapted for the purpose of causing injury to or incapacitating a person, or damaging or destroying property, or which is intended, by the person in whose possession it is, for such purpose, whether by himself or herself or, by some other person, as the case may be. | ||
(4) A person who contravenes subsection (3) shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(5) In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (3) it shall be a defence for an accused to show that he or she had lawful authority to have in his or her possession, or to bring or cause to be brought into an airport a thing or article referred to in the said subsection. | ||
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section an authorised person within the meaning of the Act of 1988 may take such steps as may be necessary for the purpose of testing security arrangements at an airport. |