Aeronautics Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. A-2)

Marginal note:Relationship with regulations

• 4.74 (1) A security measure may provide that it applies in lieu of or in addition to any aviation security regulation.

• Marginal note:Conflict

  (2) If there is a conflict between an aviation security regulation and a security measure, the security measure prevails to the extent of the conflict.

Marginal note:Foreign aircraft requirements

4.75 For the purposes of protecting the public, passengers, crew members, aircraft and aerodromes and other aviation facilities or for preventing unlawful interference with civil aviation, no operator of an aircraft registered outside Canada shall land the aircraft at an aerodrome in Canada unless the aircraft and all persons and goods on board the aircraft have been subjected to requirements that are acceptable to the Minister.

Marginal note:Emergency directions

4.76 If the Minister is of the opinion that there is an immediate threat to aviation security or to any aircraft or aerodrome or other aviation facility, or to the safety of the public, passengers or crew members, the Minister may direct any person to do, or to refrain from doing, anything that in the opinion of the Minister it is necessary to do or refrain from doing in order to respond to the threat, including directions respecting

• (a) the evacuation of aircraft and of aerodromes or other aviation facilities, or portions of them;

• (b) the diversion of aircraft to alternate landing sites; and

• (c) the movement of aircraft or persons at aerodromes or other aviation facilities.

Marginal note:Authorized officer may make emergency direction

4.77 The Minister may authorize any officer of the Department of Transport to make, subject to any restrictions or conditions that the Minister may specify, any direction that the Minister may make under section 4.76 whenever the officer is of the opinion that there is a threat referred to in that section.

Marginal note:Duration

4.771 An emergency direction comes into force immediately when it is made but ceases to have force 72 hours after it is made, unless the Minister or the officer who made it repeals it before the expiry of the 72 hours.

Marginal note:Relationship with regulations and security measures

• 4.78 (1) An emergency direction may provide that it applies in lieu of or in addition to any aviation security regulation or security measure.

• Marginal note:Conflict

  (2) If there is a conflict between an aviation security regulation or a security measure and an emergency direction, the emergency direction prevails to the extent of the conflict.