Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WEAPONS REGULATION 2016 - REG 73

73 What security licence (organisation) authorises

(1) A security licence (organisation) authorises—

(a) the licensee to possess and use any weapon of the category endorsed on the licence, in the course of the licensee’s conduct as a security organisation; and

(b) the licensee’s representative endorsed on the licence to physically possess the weapon (other than to perform duties as a security guard) in the course of the licensee’s conduct as a security organisation; and

(c) the licensee to allow its employees to physically possess the weapon in the course of the licensee’s conduct as a security organisation.

(2) However, the licensee may allow the employee to physically possess the weapon in the course of the licensee’s conduct as a security organisation only if the employee holds—

(a) a security licence (guard); or

(b) a firearms licence (instructor).

(3) Further, the employee may physically possess the weapon for either or both of the following purposes only if the weapon was issued to the employee by the licensee during a shift worked by the employee for the licensee—

(a) to perform a security guard duty;

(b) for security guard training.

(4) Further, the licence does not authorise a person to physically possess or use the weapon, or authorise the licensee to allow an employee of the licensee to physically possess the weapon—

(a) at a place if the reason or part of the reason the person or employee is at the place is to maintain order at the place; or

(b) for private inquiry work; or

(c) for process serving or debt collection.

(5) Further, the licence does not authorise a person to physically possess the weapon unless the person is actually performing security guard duties that reasonably necessitate the person’s physical possession of the weapon.

Example of security guard duties that reasonably necessitate physical possession of a weapon—

escorting cash or valuables