Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT - SECT 4

(1) In this Act, a "security provider" means -

(a) a crowd controller;

(b) a security officer;

(c) a security firm; or

(d) a person or partnership carrying out the functions of a member of a class of persons declared in a notice under section 8 to be a category of security providers.

(2) A person employed by a security provider is not a security provider if the person's duties are wholly secretarial or clerical.

(3) Each of the following persons is not a security provider in carrying out the functions of the person's employment:

(a) a member of the Police Force or a member of the police service of the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth;

(b) a member of the Defence Force;

(c) an employee as defined in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act or an officer or employee of the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth;

(d) a minister of the Territory, the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth; or

(e) a department of the Territory, the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth.