New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 1997 - SECT 12

12 Class 2 licences

(1) Class 2 licences are to be classified into subclasses. Those subclasses, and the authority they confer, are as follows:

(a) class 2A-authorises the licensee to act as a consultant by identifying and analysing security risks and providing solutions and management strategies to minimise those security risks,

(b) class 2B-authorises the licensee to sell, and provide advice in relation to, security equipment and to sell the services of persons to carry on any security activity,

(c) class 2C-authorises the licensee to act as a locksmith, including selling, installing, maintaining, repairing and servicing, and providing advice in relation to, security equipment (including barrier equipment),

(d) class 2D-authorises the licensee to provide training, assessment or instruction in relation to any security activity,

(e) class 2E-authorises the licensee to protect assets or other property by selling, installing, maintaining, repairing and servicing, and providing advice in relation to, barrier equipment,

(f) class 2F-authorises the licensee to sell, install, maintain, repair and service, and provide advice in relation to, electronic security equipment,

(g) any other class prescribed by the regulations-authorises the licensee to carry on the security activity prescribed by the regulations in relation to the prescribed class of licence concerned.

(2) The relevant subclass is to be endorsed on each class 2 licence. More than one such subclass may be endorsed on a class 2 licence.

(3) The authority conferred by a class 2D licence does not extend to training or instruction in the use of firearms.

Note: Trainers and instructors of security guards and security personnel who use firearms in their employment are approved by the Commissioner under the Firearms (General) Regulation 1997 and are required to be licensed under the Firearms Act 1996 .