PRIVATE SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 82 Circumstances in which the Chief Commissioner must refuse to grant a private security individual operator registration

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT 2004 - SECT 82

    (1)     The Chief Commissioner must not grant a private security individual operator registration if—

        (a)     he or she is satisfied that the granting of the registration is not in the public interest; or

        (b)     he or she is not satisfied that the applicant meets the probity requirements set out in subsection (2).

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) the probity requirements are that the person—

        (a)     is fit and proper; and

        (b)     is aged 18 years or more; and

        (c)     has not contravened or failed to comply with any provision of this Act, the regulations or any corresponding previous enactment, to the extent that warrants the refusal of the registration; and

        (d)     is not a person in relation to whom—

              (i)     not more than 10 years have expired since that person was convicted of an indictable offence that in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner would render the person unsuitable to hold a private security registration; or

              (ii)     not more than 5 years have expired since that person has been found guilty (without a conviction being recorded) of an indictable offence that in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner would render the person unsuitable to hold a private security registration; and

        (e)     is not a person who is charged with an indictable offence that in the opinion of the Chief Commissioner would render the person unsuitable to hold a private security registration.