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Requirement for all passengers departing from the UK
Security Restricted Items
Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security restricted areas and in cabin baggage.
Guns, firearms and other devices that discharge projectiles
Devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used
to cause serious injury by discharging a projectile,
Including:
• Firearms of all types, such as pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns,
• Toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons,
• Component parts of firearms, excluding telescopic sights,
• compressed air and CO2 guns, such as pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns,
• signal flare pistols and starter pistols,
• Bows, cross bows and arrows,
• Harpoon guns and spear guns,
• Slingshots and catapults;
Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge
Objects with a sharp point or sharp edge capable of being used to cause serious injury,
Including:
• Items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers,
• Ice axes and ice picks,
• Razor blades,
• Box cutters,
• Knives with blades of more than 6 cm
• Scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum,
• Martial arts equipment with a sharp point or sharp edge,
• Swords and sabers
Workmen’s tools
Tools capable of being used either to cause serious injury or to threaten the safety of aircraft,
Including:
• Crowbars,
• Drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills,
• Tools with a blade or a shaft of more than 6 cm capable of use as a weapon,
such as screwdrivers and chisels,
• Saws, including cordless portable power saws,
• Blowtorches,
• bolt guns and nail guns;
Security Restricted Items
Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into security restricted areas and on board an aircraft.
Blunt instruments
Objects capable of being used to cause serious injury
when used to hit,
Including:
• Baseball and softball bats,
• Clubs and batons, such as rackets, billy clubs, blackjacks and night sticks,
• Martial arts equipment;
Stunning devices
Devices designed specifically to stun or immobilize,
Including:
• Devices for shocking, such as stun guns, tasers and stun batons,
• Animal stunners and animal killers,
• Disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper sprays,
capsicum sprays, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays;
Explosives and incendiary substances and devices (Prohibited in both Cabin and Hold Baggage)
Explosives and incendiary substances and devices capable, or appearing capable, of being used to cause serious injury or to pose a threat to the safety of aircraft,
Including:
• Ammunition,
• Blasting caps,
• Detonators and fuses,
• Replica or imitation explosive devices,
• Mines, grenades and other explosive military stores,
• Fireworks and other pyrotechnics,
• Smoke-generating canisters and smoke-generating cartridges,
• Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives.
