Canadian Aviation Security Regulations, 2012

Marginal note:Refusal of entry

• 8.5 (1) A screening authority must not allow a person referred to in subsection 8.1(1) who appears to be 18 years of age or older to pass beyond a passenger screening checkpoint into a sterile area if

  • (a) the person presents a piece of photo identification and does not resemble the photograph;

  • (b) the person does not appear to be the age indicated by the date of birth on the identification they present;

  • (c) the person does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification they present;

  • (d) the person presents more than one form of identification and there is a major discrepancy between those forms of identification; or

  • (e) there is a major discrepancy between the name on the identification presented by the person and the name on their access document.

• Marginal note:Medical exceptions

  (2) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply in respect of a person referred to in subsection 8.1(1) if

  • (a) the person’s appearance changed for medical reasons after the photograph was taken and the person presents the screening authority with a document signed by a health care professional and attesting to that fact; or

  • (b) the person’s face is bandaged for medical reasons and the person presents the screening authority with a document signed by a health care professional and attesting to that fact.