Private Security Industry Act 2007

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2 General interpretation

3 Act not applicable to certain persons

4 Appointment of licensing officers and assistant licensing officers

5 Meaning of "private investigator"

6 No person to be private investigator without private investigator’s licence

7 No person to supply private investigators’ services without private investigation agency’s licence

8 Employees who are private investigators

9 Employees who are not private investigators

10 Private investigation agency to obtain identification documents from client

11 Approvals required for certain security assignments

12 Duty to keep records

13 Meaning of "security officer"

14 No person to be security officer without security officer’s licence

15 No person to supply security officers’ services without security agency’s licence

16 Employees who are security officers

17 Employees who are not security officers

17A Assaulting or using criminal force on security officer

17B Voluntarily causing hurt to security officer

17C Intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress to security officer

17D Enhanced penalty for section 17C offence committed subsequently

17E Requisite knowledge that target person is acting as security officer

17F Application of Protection from Harassment Act 2014*

18 Meaning of providing security service

19 Unlicensed security service provider prohibited

21 Grant and renewal of licence

22 Conditions of licence

23 Form and validity of licence

24 Revocation or suspension of licence

25 Effect of revocation or suspension of licence

26 Appeal to Minister

26A Minister may designate others to hear appeals

27 Power to search premises

29 Power to investigate

30 Monitoring powers of licensing officer

31 Obstruction of search, etc.

32 Offences by bodies corporate, etc.

33 Composition of offences

34 Jurisdiction of court

35 Unlicensed private investigation agency, unlicensed security agency and unlicensed security service provider not to recover fees, etc.

36 Service of documents, etc.

38 Amendment of Schedule

THE SCHEDULE

Sections 2 and 38(1)

Security equipment

1. Optical surveillance device capable of being used to record visually or observe an activity, including night vision equipment, but does not include spectacle, contact lenses or a similar device used by a person with impaired sight to overcome that impairment.

2. Audio device capable of being used to overhear, record, monitor or listen to a conversation or words spoken to or by a person in conversation, but does not include a hearing aid or similar device used by a person with impaired hearing to overcome the impairment and permit the person to hear sound ordinarily audible to the human ear.

3. Data surveillance device or program capable of being used to record or monitor the input of information into, or output of information from, a computer, but does not include an optical surveillance device.

4. Tracking device capable of being used to determine or monitor electronically the location of a person or an object or the status of an object.

5. Other surveillance device that is a combination of 2 or more of the devices mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 4.

6. Technical surveillance counter measure equipment capable of detecting or rendering ineffective other surveillance devices.

7. Intruder alarm systems.

8. Electronic access control systems including card and biometric access control systems.

9. Explosive and narcotic sniffers.

10. Devices capable of being used to detect deception such as the polygraph equipment.

11. Currency or document screening equipment.

12. X-ray security screening machines.

13. Walk-through metal detectors.

14. Radio frequency scanners.

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