New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 1997 - SECT 26

26 Revocation of licence

(1) A licence may be revoked:

(b) if the licensee:

(i) supplied information that was (to the licensee’s knowledge) false or misleading in a material particular in, or in connection with, the application for the licence, or

(ii) contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations, whether or not the licensee has been convicted of an offence for the contravention, or

(iii) contravenes any condition of the licence, or

(d) for any other reason prescribed by the regulations.

(1A) The Commissioner must revoke a licence where the Commissioner is satisfied that, if the licensee were applying for a new licence, the application would be required by this Act to be refused.

(2) The Commissioner may revoke a licence by serving on the licensee, personally or by post, a notice stating that the licence is revoked and the reasons for revoking it.

(3) The revocation of a licence by such a notice takes effect when the notice is served or on a later date specified in the notice.

Note: Section 31 requires the licensee to immediately surrender the licence if the licence is revoked.

(4) The Commissioner may, by serving a further notice on the holder of a licence, cancel a notice revoking a licence before the notice takes effect.