Western Australian Current Acts

SECURITY AND RELATED ACTIVITIES (CONTROL) ACT 1996 - SECT 19

19 .         Security officers to be employed by security agent

        (1)         A person who is licensed as a —

            (a)         security officer; or

            (b)         security consultant; or

            (c)         security installer; or

            (d)         security bodyguard,

                must not act as such unless he or she does so as an employee of a security agent.

        Penalty: a fine of $15 000.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to a licensed security agent who is acting under the authority of a licence referred to in section 16, 17, 18 or 18A, as is relevant.

        (3)         Where a security agent’s licence is held by a natural person on behalf of a partnership or a body corporate, references in subsection (1) to a security agent include references to the partnership or the body corporate.

        [Section 19 amended: No. 4 of 2008 s. 20 and 80(2).]