New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26 Issue of licence

• (1) Where the Registrar is satisfied in respect of an application for a licence that the provisions of this Act have been complied with and that the applicant is a proper person to be the holder of the licence, he shall grant the application, but otherwise he shall refuse to grant the application.

  (1A) In the case of an application for a security guard's licence, the Registrar may grant a licence under subsection (1) of this section either—

  • (a) For all of the classes of the business of a security guard specified in section 4 of this Act ; or

  • (b) For any particular class or classes of that business that he specifies in the licence.

  (2) The Registrar shall notify the applicant in writing of his decision.

  (3) Where the Registrar grants an application for a licence, he shall specify in the licence a place of business to be the registered office of the applicant, and may also specify in the licence any other places from which the applicant may carry on the business to which the licence relates.

  (4) Where the Registrar grants an application for a licence he shall, on payment of the prescribed fee (if any), issue to the applicant a licence in the appropriate form in Schedule 2 to this Act.

  Subsection (1A) was inserted, as from 18 October 1978, by section 7 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83).