Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 2003 - SECT 13

    (1)     An employee licence is a licence that authorises the licensee to do 1 or more of the following:

        (a)     patrol, guard, watch or protect property (including cash in transit);

        (b)     guard with a firearm for cash in transit;

        (c)     guard with a firearm for protecting property;

        (d)     act as a monitoring centre operator;

        (e)     guard with a dog;

        (f)     act as a bodyguard;

        (g)     act as a security consultant;

        (h)     act as a crowd controller;

              (i)     sell security equipment;

        (j)     carry out surveys and inspections of security equipment;

        (k)     give advice about security equipment;

        (l)     install, maintain, monitor, repair or service security equipment.

Note 1     A licence to guard with a firearm does not authorise the licensee to use a firearm (see s 16).

Note 2     A person must hold an appropriate ACT firearms licence to be eligible to be granted a licence to guard with a firearm (see s 24).

    (2)     In this section:

"security consultant" means a person whose function is to identify and analyse security risks and provide solutions, management strategies or both to minimise security risks.