Private Investigators and Security Guards Act 1974 No 48 (as at 03 September 2007), Public Act

18 Application for licence
  • (1) A person who wishes to obtain a licence shall apply in writing, in the prescribed form (if any), and with one additional copy, to the Registrar.

    (2) The application shall state the following information:

    • (a) The full name, residential address, occupation, and date of birth of the applicant:

    • (b) In the case of a company, the full name, residential address, occupation, and date of birth of every officer of the company, and the nature of all other business carried on or proposed to be carried on by the applicant:

    • (c) The full address of every place of business from which the applicant proposes to carry on the business to which the application relates:

    • (d) The proposed registered office of the applicant, being one of the places of business specified in the application:

    • (e) Such other matters as may be prescribed.

    (2A) In the case of an application for a security guard's licence, it shall also state—

    • (a) That the applicant proposes to carry on all of the classes of the business of a security guard specified in section 4 of this Act ; or

    • (b) Where he does not intend to carry on all of those classes of business, the particular classes that he does propose to carry on.

    (3) The application may also state an address, other than the residential address of the applicant, at which documents relating to the application may be served on him.

    (4) The application shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any), and (except where the applicant is a company) by 2 identical photographs of the applicant

    Subsection (1) was amended, as from 18 October 1978, by section 12 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83) by inserting the words and with one additional copy.

    Subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 18 October 1978, by section 5 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83).

    Subsection (4) was amended, as from 18 October 1978, by section 21(2) Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83) by omitting the words that, in the opinion of the Registrar, comply with the requirements (if any) of any regulations made in that behalf under this Act.