REGULATIONS ON CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
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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 Provisions
Article 1
These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of safeguarding civil
aviation activities against acts of unlawful interference, maintaining the
order of civil aviation and ensuring the safety of civil aviation.
Article 2
These Regulations are applicable to all civil aviation activities and
to the units and individuals related to civil aviation activities in the
territory of the People's Republic of China.
These Regulations are applicable to civil aircraft possessing the
nationality of the People's Republic of China engaged in civil aviation
activities outside the territory of the People's Republic of China; unless
it is otherwise provided in international treaties concluded or
participated in by the People's Republic of China.
Article 3
Centralized management and division of responsibility shall be
exercised in the work of civil aviation security.
The civil aviation public security department shall be responsible for
the centralized management, inspection and supervision of the work of
civil aviation security.
Article 4
The local governments and civil aviation units concerned shall
co-operate closely and safeguard civil aviation safety commonly.
Article 5
Passengers, consignors, consignees and other persons entering an
airport shall comply with the laws and regulations stipulated for civil
aviation safety control.
Article 6
A civil airport operator and a civil aircraft operator shall fulfill
the following duties:
(1) Establish a civil aviation security programme of his own unit and
report to the competent civil aviation authorities under the State Council
for the record;
(2) Implement strictly the civil aviation security measures concerned;
(3) Carry out periodically civil aviation security training, and
remove in time hidden dangers to the safety of civil aviation.
A foreign civil aviation enterprise operating air services to the
People's Republic of China shall submit its civil aviation security
programme to the competent civil aviation authorities under the State
Council.
Article 7
A citizen has the right to report to the civil aviation public
security institute any premeditated seizure or destruction of civil
aviation aircraft or any other acts that endanger civil aviation safety.
Article 8
Reward shall be given by the people's government concerned or by the
competent civil aviation authorities under the State Council to a unit or
an individual making outstanding contributions to safeguarding civil
aviation safety.
Chapter II Security Control in Civil Airport
Article 9
The construction, modification or extension of civil airport
(including the civil part in those airports joint-used by military and
civil units) shall conform to the stipulations governing the construction
of civil airport security facilities of the competent civil aviation
authorities under the State Council.
Article 10
A civil airport shall be opened for use if it satisfies the security
conditions listed below:
(1) It has established an airport controlled area and is provided with
full-time security personnel;
(2) It has established protective fence and patrol passages up to
standard;
(3) It has established a security unit and is provided with
corresponding personnel and equipment;
(4) It has established a security facilities and is provided with the
personnel and check-up equipments corresponding to the traffic volume of
the airport;
(5) It has established a full-time fire-fighting organization and is
provided with personnel and equipment in accordance with the fire-fighting
grade of the airport;
(6) It has established a contingency plan and is provided with
necessary contingency rescue equipment.
Article 11
The airpot controlled zone shall be divided, in accordance with
security requirements, into departure sterile area, baggage sorting
loading and unloading area, aircraft movement area, maintenance area and
cargo storage area, etc. Security protection facilities and distinct signs
shall be set up respectively.
Article 12
Strict security measures shall be established for the airport
controlled area, and the area shall be of a closed type and controlled
separately. The specific method of control shall be formulated by the
competent civil aviation authorities under the State Council.
Article 13
All personnel and vehicles, while entering the airport controlled
area, must bear the airport controlled area pass and be subject to the
inspection of security personnel.
Airport controlled area pass shall be made, issued and controlled by
the civil aviation public security unit in accordance with the regulations
concerned of the competent civil aviation authorities under the State
Council.
Article 14
In the aircraft movement area and the maintenance area, personnel and
vehicles must follow the stipulated way. Vehicles and equipments must be
parked in designated positions. All personnel and vehicles must make way
for aircraft.
Article 15
The civil aircraft parked in an airport must be guarded by specially
assigned persons; the departments concerned and their working personnel
must strictly implement aircraft handing over and taking over procedure.
Article 16
The following acts are prohibited in an airport:
(1) Climbing up and over (penetrate) or damage airport protective
fence and other security protection facilities;
(2) Hunting, herding, sunning grain or train vehicle driver in airport
controlled 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 creating
confusion;
(7) Any other acts disturbing the order in airport.
Chapter III Security of Civil Aviation Operation
Article 17
The carrier and its agent, in selling passenger ticket, must comply
with the regulations concerned of the competent civil aviation authorities
under the State Council; no passenger ticket shall be sold if not
conforming to regulations.
Article 18
The carrier, in performing the formalities for transportation, must
check up passengers and baggage in the aircraft.
Article 19
The carrier must check the number of passengers when they board the
aircraft.
The baggage of the passengers already checked in but failed to board
the aircraft shall not be loaded or retained in the aircraft.
If a passenger gets off the aircraft midway, his baggage must be
unloaded.
Article 20
The carrier must assign special persons to supervise the baggage and
cargo during the storage period on ground and transportation period.
Article 21
The unit which prepares the supplies and loads them must ensure the
safety of such supplies loaded into the aircraft.
Article 22
The work of security of an aircraft in flight shall be the unified
responsibility of the pilot-in-command.
The aviation security officer shall undertake the concrete work of
security under the leadership of the pilot-in-command.
The pilot-in-command, aviation security officer and other crew members
shall strictly fulfill their duties and protect the safety of the civil
aircraft and of the persons and property carried therein.
Article 23
The pilot-in-command, in performing his duties, may exercise the
following powers:
(1) Before the aircraft takes off he may refuse to take off if he
discovers that the party concerned failed to take the security measures
prescribed in the Regulations for the aircraft;
(2) During the flight he may take necessary measures of restraint
against a person who disturbs the order in the aircraft, interferes with
the normal work of crew members and disregards any warning;
(3) During the flight he may take necessary measures against the
seizure or destruction of the aircraft or any other acts harmful to
aviation safety;
(4) During the flight he can make the final decision regarding the
disposal of the aircraft in case of extraordinary circumstances.
Article 24
The following acts interfering with the order of civil aviation
operation are prohibited:
(1) Scalp the certificate for purchasing ticket, passenger ticket and
the effective reservation certificate of air transport enterprise;
(2) Purchase ticket and go aboard an aircraft by using the identity
card of another person;
(3) Taking advantage of the passenger ticket to check or bring along
the baggage not belonging to the passenger himself.
(4) Load into the aircraft articles which have not gone through
security inspection or for which no other security measures have been
taken.
Article 25
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 authorization
lifesaving articles or appliances;
(5) Commit other acts endangering flight safety and disturbing the
order in aircraft.
Chapter IV Security Inspection
Article 26
Passengers and other persons aboard the aircraft, together with the
baggage they carry, must be subject to security inspection except those
exempted from inspection as prescribed by the State Council.
A person who refuses to go through security inspection shall be denied
boarding and bear the losses himself.
Article 27
The security inspection personnel shall examine the ticket, identity
card and boarding pass of the passenger and carry out the security
inspection of the passenger and his baggage with instrument or manually;
the inspection may be stricter if necessary.
The passengers already gone through security inspection shall wait in
the departure sterile area for boarding the aircraft.
Article 28
The working personnel (including crew members) and the articles
brought along by them shall be subject to security inspection while
entering the departure sterile area.
The persons meeting or seeing off the passengers as well as other
personnel must not enter the departure sterile area.
Article 29
Diplomatic mail bags are exempted from security inspection. Diplomatic
couriers and other articles brought along by them shall be subject to
security inspection, except those otherwise provided in international
treaties concluded or participated in by the People's Republic of China.
Article 30
The cargo for air transportation must go through security inspection
or other security measures.
The cargo consignor must not consign an article with a false name or
secretly include dangerous articles among the goods.
Article 31
Air mail must go through security inspection. In case a suspicious
mail is discovered, the security inspection department and the postal
department shall jointly open it for examination and handling.
Article 32
Unless otherwise provided by the State Council, the persons flying in
a civil aircraft are prohibited from carrying with them or consign for
transportation the following articles:
(1) Firearms, ammunition, weapons, police arms;
(2) Controlled knives;
(3) Inflammables, explosives, poisonous, erosive and radioactive
articles;
(4) Other contraband stipulated by the State.
Article 33
Other articles which could be used to jeopardize flight safety, though
not included in Article 32, still must not be taken by the passenger
himself. However they can be consigned as baggage or can be carried, in
accordance with the regulations stipulated by the civil aviation
authorities of the State Council, by crew members and be taken back at the
destination.
Articles for daily use containing inflammable substance may be carried
in limited quantity. The articles to be carried in limited quantity and
the quantity to be carried shall be specified by the competent civil
aviation authorities of the State Council.
Chapter V Penalty Provisions
Article 34
Those who violates the provisions of Article 14 or commits an act
listed in Article 16, item (1) and (2) of Article 24 or Article 25 of the
Regulations shall be punished by the civil aviation public security
institute in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Regulations
of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public
Security."
Article 35
Those who violates the relevant provisions in the Regulations shall be
punished by the civil aviation public security institute in accordance
with the following provisions:
(1) A person who commits an act listed in item 4 of Article 24 may be
punished by warning or imposing a fine of less than 3,000 RMB;
(2) A person who commits an act listed in item 3 of Article 24 may be
punished by warning, confiscating his unlawful earnings or imposing a fine
of less than 5,000 RMB;
(3) A person who violates item 2 of Article 30 and Article 32 but not
serious enough to constitute a crime, may be punished by imposing a fine
of less than 5,000 RMB, and confiscating or withholding the articles
unlawfully carried.
Article 36
Where the provisions of these Regulations are violated in one of the
following circumstances; the competent civil aviation authority may punish
the unit concerned by warning, stopping its business for rectification or
imposing a fine of less than 50,000 RMB; the civil aviation public
security organ may punish the person directly responsible by warning or
imposing a fine of less than 500 RMB:
(1) Cause an aircraft to be out of control in violation of the
provisions of Article 15;
(2) Sell passenger ticket in violation of the provisions of Article
17;
(3) Fail to check the persons to fly in the aircraft and baggage by
the carrier in performing the formalities for transportation in violation
of the provisions of Article 18;
(4) Violate the provisions of Article 19;
(5) Fail to take security measures for the articles accepted for
transportation and to be loaded into the aircraft in violation of the
provisions of Article 20, Article 21, item 1 of Article 30 and Article 31.
Article 37
Those who violates the relevant provisions of the Regulations and
constitutes a crime shall be investigated for criminal responsibility.
Article 38
Those who violates the provisions of the Regulations, in addition to
the punishment prescribed in this Chapter, shall bear the liability to pay
compensation according to law for any loss caused by him to a unit or an
individual.
Chapter VI Appendix
Article 39
In the Regulations the meanings of the following expressions are:
"Airport controlled area" refers to the area defined in an airport
according to the requirement of safety, the entry into and exit from which
are subject to restriction.
"Departure sterile area" refers to the area defined in a terminal
building (lounge) according to the requirement of safety, in which
departing passengers who have gone through security inspection wait to
board the aircraft, as well as boarding passage and ferry vehicle.
"Aircraft movement area" refers to the area in an airport used for the
takeoff and landing and other ground movements concerned of aircraft,
including runway, taxiway, connecting taxiway and passenger apron.
Article 40
The Regulations shall go into effect on the date of promulgation.