Queensland Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 6B

(1) A security guard is a person who patrols, protects, watches over or guards (protects) the person's property or other persons or other person's property--

(a) in the course of carrying on a business; or

(b) in the course of employment.

Example--

A jeweller transporting jewellery in the course of carrying on a business who does not engage someone else to guard the jewellery while it is being transported is a 'security guard'.

(2) However, the following persons are not security guards--

(a) a person who protects property if the protection is carried out in the course of primary production;

(b) a person, other than a security organisation, who engages someone else to protect property for the person.