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SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS AGENTS ACT 2002 - SECT 21A

PART 3 - Offences Division 1 - General 21A. Employing unlicensed person

      (1) A person must not –

(a) employ or engage another person to undertake any activity for which a licence is required; or

(b) direct another person to undertake any such activity –

unless that other person holds a licence authorising the undertaking of that activity.

Penalty:

In the case of –

(a) a body corporate, a fine not exceeding 1 000 penalty units; and

(b) a natural person, a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units.

      (2) It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subsection (1)(a) for the person to show that he or she sighted the identity card of the other person before employing or engaging him or her to undertake the activity for which the licence was required.

      (3) It is a defence to a charge of an offence under subsection (1)(b) for the person to show that he or she reasonably believed that the other person held the relevant licence.


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