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SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS AGENTS ACT 2002 - SECT 21A Employing unlicensed person

SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS AGENTS ACT 2002 - SECT 21A

PART 3 - Offences Division 1 - General Employing unlicensed person

(1)  A person must not –
(a) employ or engage another person to undertake any of the following activities:
(i) commercial agent activities or commercial employee activities;
(ii) crowd control agent activities or crowd control employee activities;
(iii) security agent activities or security employee activities;
(iv) inquiry agent activities; or
(b) direct another person to undertake any such activities –
unless that other person holds a licence authorising the undertaking of those activities.
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.