(1) No person shall be a private investigator unless he is the holder of a private investigator's licence.
(2) No person shall be a security guard unless he is the holder of a security guard's licence for every class of the business of a security guard that he carries on.
(3) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section commits an offence against this Act.
Subsection (2) was substituted, as from 18 October 1978, by section 4(1) Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83).
Subsection (3) was substituted, as from 1 July 1995, by section 17 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1995 (1995 No 14).