Canadian Aviation Security Regulations, 2012

Marginal note:Operations-based security exercise

• 475 (1) The operator of an aerodrome must, at least once every four years, carry out an operations-based security exercise that

  • (a) tests the effectiveness of the operator’s emergency plan in response to an act of unlawful interference with civil aviation and involves the persons and organizations referred to in the plan; and

  • (b) tests the effectiveness of additional safeguards that the operator chooses from its menu of additional safeguards.

• Marginal note:Equivalency

  (2) If, in response to an aviation security incident, the Minister raises the AVSEC level for an aerodrome or any part of an aerodrome, the implementation of additional safeguards by the operator of the aerodrome counts as an operations-based security exercise for the purposes of subsection (1).