Canadian Aviation Security Regulations, 2012 (SOR/2011-318)

Marginal note:Escort ratio

• 336. (1) The operator of an aerodrome must ensure that at least one escort is provided for every 10 persons who require escort.

• Marginal note:Surveillance ratio

  (2) The operator of an aerodrome must ensure that no more than 20 persons at a time are kept under surveillance by one person.

Marginal note:Requirement to remain together

• 337. (1) A person under escort must remain with the escort while the person is in a restricted area.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) An escort must remain with the person under escort while the person is in a restricted area.

• Marginal note:Requirement to inform

  (3) The person who appoints an escort must inform the escort of the requirement to remain with the person under escort while that person is in a restricted area.

Marginal note:Screening requirement

338. The operator of an aerodrome must ensure that a person under escort or surveillance at the aerodrome and any goods in the person’s possession or control are screened at a screening checkpoint before the person enters a sterile area.

Marginal note:Exception — conveyances

• 339. (1) The operator of an aerodrome is not required to place an escort or surveillance personnel in a conveyance that is in a restricted area at the aerodrome and is carrying persons who require escort or surveillance if the conveyance travels in a convoy with an escort conveyance that contains at least one person in possession of an active restricted area identity card that has been issued to them.

• Marginal note:Exception to exception

  (2) The operator of the aerodrome must ensure that, if a person who requires escort or surveillance disembarks from a conveyance in a restricted area at the aerodrome, the person is escorted or kept under surveillance in accordance with section 336.

Marginal note:Escort conveyances

340. The operator of an aerodrome must ensure that, at the aerodrome, at least one escort conveyance is provided for

• (a) every three conveyances requiring escort to or from an air terminal building apron area for a purpose other than snow removal operations;

• (b) every six conveyances requiring escort to or from an air terminal building apron area for snow removal operations; and

• (c) every six conveyances requiring escort to or from a restricted area other than an air terminal building apron area.

Marginal note:Exemption

341. Nothing in this Division requires an inspector acting in the course of their employment to be in possession of a restricted area identity card or any other document issued or approved by the operator of an aerodrome as authorization for the inspector to enter or remain in a restricted area.