--- title: "The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2025" id: fc3486fc-6387-477f-bbb4-1d712a10e591 authority: uk place: "United Kingdom" applies_also_from: [] kind: regulation in_force: true publisher_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/664 attribution: "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." solon_url: https://solon.orangecat.ch/law/fc3486fc-6387-477f-bbb4-1d712a10e591 language: en in_force_from: 2025-07-01 date_basis: publisher status: consolidated source_url: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/664/data.xml read_on: 2026-11-10 sha256: 25da4d9a67f307f602b200557472323f91a553eaf5a0acf90c81c3967b16bc1e provisions: 4 --- # The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 ## Title and introductory text {#prelims} 2025 No. 664 SECURITY INDUSTRY The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 Made 9th June 2025 Laid before Parliament 10th June 2025 Coming into force 1st July 2025 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 4(1) of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (“the Act”). In accordance with section 4(1) of the Act, it appears to the Secretary of State that there are circumstances in which licensable conduct is engaged in only by persons to whom suitable alternative arrangements will apply, and the Secretary of State is satisfied that, as a consequence, it is unnecessary for persons engaging in any such conduct in those circumstances to be required to be licensed under the Act. The Secretary of State has consulted with the Scottish Ministers, the Department of Justice and the Security Industry Authority in accordance with section 24(4)(a) of the Act. ## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1} (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1st July 2025. (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. ## 2 Amendment of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) Regulations 2010 {#regulation-2} (1) The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) Regulations 2010 are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 2, omit the definition of “the 2010 Regulation”. (3) For regulation 4, substitute— Prescribed circumstances 4 (1) The circumstances prescribed for the purposes of this regulation are those where a person is provided to implement or be responsible for the implementation of screening, access control or other security controls on behalf of— (a) an operator of one or more aircraft registered or operating in the United Kingdom, (b) a manager of an aerodrome in the United Kingdom, (c) an occupier of any land forming part of an aerodrome in the United Kingdom, (d) a person who is permitted, within the meaning of section 24A(2) of the Aviation Security Act 1982, to have access to a security restricted area of such an aerodrome for the purposes of the activities of a business carried on by them, or (e) an air cargo agent, for purposes to which Part 2 of the Aviation Security Act 1982 (protection of aircraft, aerodromes and air navigation installations against acts of violence) applies. (2) In this regulation— “access control” means the application of means by which the entry of unauthorised persons or unauthorised vehicles, or both, may be prevented; “air cargo agent” has the meaning given in section 21F of the Aviation Security Act 1982; “prohibited articles” means weapons, explosives or other dangerous devices, articles or substances that may be used to commit an act of unlawful interference that jeopardises the security of civil aviation within the meaning of section 10(4) of the Aviation Security Act 1982; “screening” means the application of technical or other means which are intended to identify or detect prohibited articles; “security control” means the application of means by which the introduction of prohibited articles may be prevented; and “security restricted area” has the meaning given in section 24A of the Aviation Security Act 1982. . ## 3 Revocation of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 {#regulation-3} The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Exemption) (Aviation Security) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 are revoked.