REGULATIONS ON CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY
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Whole document Contents Chapter I General Provisions Chapter II Security Control in Civil Airport Chapter III Security of Civil Aviation Operation Chapter IV Security Inspection Chapter V Penalty Provisions Chapter VI Appendix Chapter I General ProvisionsArticle 1 These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of safeguarding civilaviation activities against acts of unlawful interference, These Regulations are applicable to all civil aviation activities andto the units and individuals related to civil aviation activities These Regulations are applicable to civil aircraft possessing thenationality of the People’s Republic of China engaged in Centralized management and division of responsibility shall beexercised in the work of civil aviation security. The civil aviation public security department shall be responsible forthe centralized management, inspection and supervision The local governments and civil aviation units concerned shallco-operate closely and safeguard civil aviation safety commonly.Article Passengers, consignors, consignees and other persons entering anairport shall comply with the laws and regulations stipulated A civil airport operator and a civil aircraft operator shall fulfillthe following duties: (1) Establish a civil aviation security programme of his own unit andreport to the competent civil aviation authorities under (2) Implement strictly the civil aviation security measures concerned; (3) Carry out periodically civil aviation security training, andremove in time hidden dangers to the safety of civil aviation. A foreign civil aviation enterprise operating air services to thePeople’s Republic of China shall submit its civil A citizen has the right to report to the civil aviation publicsecurity institute any premeditated seizure or destruction Reward shall be given by the people’s government concerned or by thecompetent civil aviation authorities under the State Council Chapter II Security Control in Civil AirportArticle 9 The construction, modification or extension of civil airport(including the civil part in those airports joint-used by military A civil airport shall be opened for use if it satisfies the securityconditions listed below: (1) It has established an airport controlled area and is provided withfull-time security personnel; (2) It has established protective fence and patrol passages up tostandard; (3) It has established a security unit and is provided withcorresponding personnel and equipment; (4) It has established a security facilities and is provided with thepersonnel and check-up equipments corresponding to the traffic (5) It has established a full-time fire-fighting organization and isprovided with personnel and equipment in accordance with (6) It has established a contingency plan and is provided withnecessary contingency rescue equipment.Article 11 The airpot controlled zone shall be divided, in accordance withsecurity requirements, into departure sterile area, Strict security measures shall be established for the airportcontrolled area, and the area shall be of a closed type All personnel and vehicles, while entering the airport controlledarea, must bear the airport controlled area pass and be Airport controlled area pass shall be made, issued and controlled bythe civil aviation public security unit in accordance with In the aircraft movement area and the maintenance area, personnel andvehicles must follow the stipulated way. Vehicles and equipments The civil aircraft parked in an airport must be guarded by speciallyassigned persons; the departments concerned and their The following acts are prohibited in an airport: (1) Climbing up and over (penetrate) or damage airport protectivefence and other security protection facilities; (2) Hunting, herding, sunning grain or train vehicle driver in airportcontrolled zone; (3) Entering airport controlled area without airport pass; (4) Crossing aircraft runway or taxiway at will; (5) Forcibly boarding or occupying an aircraft; (6) Making a false report on dangerous situation and creatingconfusion; (7) Any other acts disturbing the order in airport. Chapter III Security of Civil Aviation OperationArticle 17 The carrier and its agent, in selling passenger ticket, must complywith the regulations concerned of the competent civil aviation The carrier, in performing the formalities for transportation, mustcheck up passengers and baggage in the aircraft.Article The carrier must check the number of passengers when they board theaircraft. The baggage of the passengers already checked in but failed to boardthe aircraft shall not be loaded or retained in the aircraft. If a passenger gets off the aircraft midway, his baggage must beunloaded.Article 20 The carrier must assign special persons to supervise the baggage andcargo during the storage period on ground and transportation The unit which prepares the supplies and loads them must ensure thesafety of such supplies loaded into the aircraft.Article The work of security of an aircraft in flight shall be the unifiedresponsibility of the pilot-in-command. The aviation security officer shall undertake the concrete work ofsecurity under the leadership of the pilot-in-command. The pilot-in-command, aviation security officer and other crew membersshall strictly fulfill their duties and protect the safety The pilot-in-command, in performing his duties, may exercise thefollowing powers: (1) Before the aircraft takes off he may refuse to take off if hediscovers that the party concerned failed to take the (2) During the flight he may take necessary measures of restraintagainst a person who disturbs the order in the aircraft, (3) During the flight he may take necessary measures against theseizure or destruction of the aircraft or any other (4) During the flight he can make the final decision regarding thedisposal of the aircraft in case of extraordinary circumstances.Article The following acts interfering with the order of civil aviationoperation are prohibited: (1) Scalp the certificate for purchasing ticket, passenger ticket andthe effective reservation certificate of air transport enterprise; (2) Purchase ticket and go aboard an aircraft by using the identitycard of another person; (3) Taking advantage of the passenger ticket to check or bring alongthe baggage not belonging to the passenger himself. (4) Load into the aircraft articles which have not gone throughsecurity inspection or for which no other security measures The following acts are prohibited in an aircraft: (1) Smoke in no smoking area; (2) Race to occupy seat or baggage compartment (rack); (3) Fight, get drunk, or pick a quarrel and make trouble; (4) Steal, damage deliberately or move without authorizationlifesaving articles or appliances; (5) Commit other acts endangering flight safety and disturbing theorder in aircraft. Chapter IV Security InspectionArticle 26 Passengers and other persons aboard the aircraft, together with thebaggage they carry, must be subject to security inspection A person who refuses to go through security inspection shall be deniedboarding and bear the losses himself.Article 27 The security inspection personnel shall examine the ticket, identitycard and boarding pass of the passenger and carry The passengers already gone through security inspection shall wait inthe departure sterile area for boarding the aircraft.Article The working personnel (including crew members) and the articlesbrought along by them shall be subject to security The persons meeting or seeing off the passengers as well as otherpersonnel must not enter the departure sterile area.Article Diplomatic mail bags are exempted from security inspection. Diplomaticcouriers and other articles brought along by them shall The cargo for air transportation must go through security inspectionor other security measures. The cargo consignor must not consign an article with a false name orsecretly include dangerous articles among the goods.Article Air mail must go through security inspection. In case a suspiciousmail is discovered, the security inspection department Unless otherwise provided by the State Council, the persons flying ina civil aircraft are prohibited from carrying with them (1) Firearms, ammunition, weapons, police arms; (2) Controlled knives; (3) Inflammables, explosives, poisonous, erosive and radioactivearticles; (4) Other contraband stipulated by the State.Article 33 Other articles which could be used to jeopardize flight safety, thoughnot included in Article 32, still must not be taken Articles for daily use containing inflammable substance may be carriedin limited quantity. The articles to be carried in limited Chapter V Penalty ProvisionsArticle 34 Those who violates the provisions of Article 14 or commits an actlisted in Article 16, item (1) and (2) of Article 24 or Those who violates the relevant provisions in the Regulations shall bepunished by the civil aviation public security institute (1) A person who commits an act listed in item 4 of Article 24 may bepunished by warning or imposing a fine of less than 3,000 (2) A person who commits an act listed in item 3 of Article 24 may bepunished by warning, confiscating his unlawful earnings (3) A person who violates item 2 of Article 30 and Article 32 but notserious enough to constitute a crime, may be punished by Where the provisions of these Regulations are violated in one of thefollowing circumstances; the competent civil aviation authority (1) Cause an aircraft to be out of control in violation of theprovisions of Article 15; (2) Sell passenger ticket in violation of the provisions of Article17; (3) Fail to check the persons to fly in the aircraft and baggage bythe carrier in performing the formalities for transportation (4) Violate the provisions of Article 19; (5) Fail to take security measures for the articles accepted fortransportation and to be loaded into the aircraft in Those who violates the relevant provisions of the Regulations andconstitutes a crime shall be investigated for criminal Those who violates the provisions of the Regulations, in addition tothe punishment prescribed in this Chapter, shall bear the Chapter VI AppendixArticle 39 In the Regulations the meanings of the following expressions are: “Airport controlled area” refers to the area defined in an airportaccording to the requirement of safety, the entry into and “Departure sterile area” refers to the area defined in a terminalbuilding (lounge) according to the requirement of “Aircraft movement area” refers to the area in an airport used for thetakeoff and landing and other ground movements concerned The Regulations shall go into effect on the date of promulgation.
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