Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT - SECT 55

(1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person (an "employer") employs a security provider (other than a security firm) for the purposes of providing security services, the employer is responsible, in tort and in contract, for anything done, or not done, by the security provider -

(a) within the scope of the security provider's authority; or

(b) for the benefit, or for the purported or intended benefit, of the employer or the employer's business.

(2) Where -

(a) the service of the security provider is provided to the employer on behalf of a security firm; or

(b) a security firm receives, whether directly or indirectly, reward for the provision of the services of the security provider to the employer,

the security firm, and not the employer, is responsible, in tort and in contract, for anything done, or not done, by the security provider -

(c) within the scope of the security provider's authority; or

(d) for the benefit, or for the purported or intended benefit, of the employer or the employer's business.

(3) Where a crowd controller or a security officer commits an offence against this Act, the employer of the person at the time of the offence is, in addition to the crowd controller or security officer, deemed to have committed the offence.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) a security firm is deemed to be the employer of a security provider, to the exclusion of any other person, if -

(a) the service of the security provider is provided on behalf of that security firm; or

(b) if the security firm receives, whether directly or indirectly, reward for the provision of those services by the security provider.