Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) holds an employee licence or an employee temporary visitor licence; and
(b) carries out any of the following security activities:
(i) patrol, guard, watch or protect property (including cash in transit);
(ii) guard with a firearm for cash in transit;
(iii) guard with a firearm for protecting property;
(iv) guard with a dog;
(v) act as a bodyguard;
(vi) act as a crowd controller; and
(c) does not wear the licence so the licence number is clearly visible.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) holds an employee licence or an employee temporary visitor licence; and
(b) carries out any of the following security activities:
(i) act as a monitoring centre operator;
(ii) act as a security consultant;
(iii) sell security equipment;
(iv) carry out surveys and inspections of security equipment;
(v) give advice about security equipment;
(vi) install, maintain, monitor, repair or service security equipment; and
(c) either—
(i) does not carry the licence; or
(ii) fails to produce it for inspection on demand by a person in relation to whom the person is carrying out the activities.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(3) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(4) This section does not apply to—
(a) a person carrying on a security activity if—
(i) a regulation requires the person to wear another form of identification while carrying on the security activity; and
(ii) the person wears the other form of identification while carrying on the security activity; or
(b) a licensee if the commissioner for fair trading has exempted the licensee under section 42A.
(5) In this section:
"security consultant"—see section 13 (2).