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PRIVATE SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 161 Liability of body corporate or holder of licence or registration for acts of officers, employees or agents

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 161

Liability of body corporate or holder of licence or registration for acts of officers, employees or agents

    (1)     If an officer, employee or agent of a body corporate, that is the holder of a private security licence or a private security registration, engages in conduct on behalf of the body corporate within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority, the body corporate must be taken, for the purposes of prosecution for an offence against this Act or the regulations, also to have engaged in the conduct unless the body corporate establishes that it took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the conduct.

    (2)     If an officer, employee or agent of the holder of a private security licence or the holder of a private security registration engages in conduct on behalf of the holder within the scope of his or her actual or apparent authority, the holder must be taken, for the purposes of prosecution for an offence against this Act or the regulations, also to have engaged in the conduct, unless the holder establishes that he or she took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the conduct.