Private Security Industry (Central Alarm Monitoring Station Operator) Regulations 2009

No. S 169

Private Security Industry Act

(Chapter 250A)

Private Security Industry (Central Alarm Monitoring Station Operator) Regulations 2009

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20 and 39 of the Private Security Industry Act, the Minister for Home Affairs hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Private Security Industry (Central Alarm Monitoring Station Operator) Regulations 2009 and shall come into operation on 27th April 2009.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Central Alarm Monitoring Station Operator” or “CAMS Operator” means any person who provides the service of monitoring intruder alarm systems linked to a central monitoring station;

“high-risk premises” means —

(a)

any premises in which any of the following types of businesses or activities are being carried on:

(i)	the banking business of a bank licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19);
(ii)	the business of a merchant bank that is approved as a financial institution under section 28 of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 186);
(iii)	the financing business of a finance company licensed under the Finance Companies Act (Cap. 108);
(iv)	the money-changing business or remittance business of a person holding a money-changer’s licence or a remittance licence (as the case may be) granted under the Money-changing and Remittance Businesses Act (Cap. 187);
(v)	the pawnbroking business of a pawnbroker licensed under the Pawnbrokers Act (Cap. 222);

(b)

any premises licensed under section 21D of the Arms and Explosives Act (Cap. 13) for the storage or keeping of explosive precursors;

(c)

any premises being a facility certified under section 51 of the Biological Agents and Toxins Act (Cap. 24A) for the storage of any biological agent or toxin or the carrying out of any activity involving any biological agent or toxin at the facility;

(d)

any premises where an automated teller machine is provided by a bank licensed under the Banking Act;

(e)

any premises in which any totalisator or totalisator agency is operated; and

(f)

any goldsmith or gemstone or jewellery shop;

“totalisator” and “totalisator agency” have the same meanings as in the Singapore Totalisator Board Act (Cap. 305A).

Prescribed licensed security service provider and prescribed alarm system

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 20(3) of the Act, the prescribed licensed security service provider shall be any CAMS Operator.

(2) For the purposes of the definition of an “alarm system” in section 20(6) of the Act, the alarm system shall be an intruder alarm system that is linked to a central monitoring station.

Prescribed charges for false alarm

4.—(1) Subject to regulation 6, where a police officer (whether or not the same police officer) attends at any premises in response to a false alarm at those premises (whether or not from the same security device), the prescribed licensed security service provider who installed or maintains the alarm system shall be liable to pay $150 for that attendance, and in respect of the second or subsequent occasions in any period of 12 months on which any police officer so attends at those premises, the following other charges:

Occasion

Charge payable

2nd occasion

$200

3rd occasion

$250

4th or subsequent occasion

$300

(2) The prescribed charge shall be paid to the Accountant-General, Singapore, not later than 14 days after the date of the receipt of a notice under regulation 5.

Notice of attendance and charge

5.—(1) The licensing officer may, in respect of each occasion on which a police officer attends at any premises in response to a call arising out of a false alarm, issue a notice to the prescribed licensed security service provider who installed or maintained the alarm system at those premises.

(2) The notice referred to in paragraph (1) shall state —

(a)	the date and time of the attendance of the police officer and such other particulars in relation to the false alarm as the licensing officer thinks necessary; and
(b)	the amount of the prescribed charge payable by the prescribed licensed security service provider under regulation 4 in respect of the attendance of the police officer at those premises.

Letter of advice

6. Where in a case of any premises which are not high-risk premises, no police officer has attended in response to a false alarm at those premises in any period of 12 months, the licensing officer may, instead of issuing a notice under regulation 5, issue a letter of advice to a prescribed licensed security service provider who is liable to pay any prescribed charge under regulation 4.

Waiver, reduction and remission of charge

7. The licensing officer may, in his discretion, waive, reduce or remit either wholly or in part any charge payable under regulation 4 in any particular case or class of cases.

Made this 23rd day of April 2009.

BENNY LIM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[MHA(PS)10/4/001; AG/LEG/SL/250A/2008/3 Vol. 1]

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