Section 107, Civil Aviation Act, 2017 for an effective aviation safety and security

(1) The Director-General shall prescribe regulations toempower and authorise aviation security inspectors to carry out security oversight activities in an effective and timely manner. (2) The Authority shall by regulations prescribe that all passengers and all property intended to be carried in the aircraft hold or cabin in air transport be screened by any appropriate means, including x-ray metal detection or physical search or other procedures or facilities employed or operated by personnel or employees or agents of an air operator or foreign air operator prior to boarding the aircraft for transportation. (3) The Authority may by regulations prescribe such other reasonable rules requiring such practices, methods and procedures as the Authority may consider necessary to protect persons and property aboard aircraft engaged in commercial air transport operation against acts of criminal violence and aircraft piracy. (4) The Authority shall, to the extent practicable, require uniform procedures for the inspection, detention, and search of persons and property in domestic commercial air transport and international commercial air transport to assure their safety.