Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Private Security Act 2004 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The purposes of this Act are-

   (a)  to provide for the licensing and registration of certain participants
        in the private security industry; and

   (b)  to otherwise regulate the private security industry for the purposes
        of ensuring public safety and peace; and

   (c)  to amend the Private Agents Act 1966; and

   (d)  to make consequential amendments to the Major Events (Crowd
        Management) Act 2003, the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Act 1985, the
        Firearms Act 1996, the Casino Control Act 1991, the Gaming Machine
        Control Act 1991, the Gaming No. 2 Act 1997 and the
        Gambling Regulation Act 2003.