Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Security providers
   5.      Crowd controllers
   6.      Security officers
   7.      Security firms
   8.      Act may be declared to apply to certain persons
   9.      Act only to apply to security firms and officers if declared to so apply

   PART 2 - LICENSING AUTHORITY

   10.     [Repealed]
   11.     Licensing authority to keep register
   12.     [Repealed]

   PART 3 - LICENCES

   13.     Requirement to be licensed
   14.     Application for licence
   15.     Entitlement to licences - natural persons
   16.     Inquiries about person's appropriateness to hold licence
   17.     Entitlement to licences - corporations or firms
   18.     Decision on application
   19.     Conditions of licence
   20.     Amendment of conditions
   21.     Notice to return licence for alteration
   22.     Production of licence
   23.     Period of validity of licence
   24.     Renewal of licence
   25.     Replacement licence

   PART 4 - CANCELLATION, SUSPENSION &c., OF LICENCES

   26.     Grounds for suspension, cancellation or refusal to renew
   27.     Procedure for suspension, cancellation or refusal to renew
   28.     Return of suspended or cancelled licence
   29.     Automatic cancellation on conviction
   30.     Right to appeal to Local Court
   31.     Commencement of appeal
   32.     Stay of operation of decisions
   33.     Hearing procedures
   34.     Powers of Court on appeal

   PART 5 - INSPECTORS

   35.     Inspectors
   36.     Inspector's identity card
   37.     Production of inspector's identity card
   38.     Entry of place by inspector
   39.     Inspector's general powers in a place
   40.     Procedure after thing seized
   41.     Power to require name and address
   42.     Power to require information from certain persons
   43.     False or misleading information
   44.     Power to require production of documents
   45.     False or misleading documents
   46.     Obstruction of inspectors
   47.     Police to retain powers under other Acts for the purposes of this Act

   PART 6 - CODES OF PRACTICE, COMPETENCY STANDARDS AND TRAINING

   48.     Codes of practice
   49.     Undertakings by persons contravening code
   50.     Registers of undertakings
   51.     Orders by Local Court where undertaking refused or breached
   52.     Variation and discharge of orders
   53.     Competency standards and training

           part 6A - complaints

   53A.    Person may make complaint about security provider
   53B.    Opportunity to be given to security provider to reply to complaint
   53C.    Consideration and decision of licensing authority
   53D.    Determination of complaint
   53E.    Review of determination of complaint

   PART 7 - GENERAL

   54.     Identification to be worn by crowd controller
   55.     Liability for security provider's actions
   56.     Employers to keep incident registers
   57.     Person not to hire crowd controller with disqualifying offence
   58.     Confidentiality of information
   59.     Protection from liability
   60.     Evidentiary provisions
   61.     Approved forms
   62.     - 64. [Repealed]
   65.     Exemptions
   66.     Regulations
           Endnotes