5Definitions

5 Definitions

In these Regulations—

crowd controller has the same meaning as in the Private Security Act 2004;

demerit point means a point recorded in the Register against a licence or permit under Part 4A of the Act;

five star rating scheme means the administrative system established for the purposes of recording demerit points, calculating renewal fees and publishing star ratings based on the compliance history of a licensee or permittee;

function room means an area of a licensed premises specified on a licence to be a function room set aside at all times for the exclusive use of persons who have booked a function to be held in that area and which is attended only by those persons or their guests;

identification, in relation to an image of a person, means an image that is of sufficient clarity to enable the person's identity to be established with a high degree of certainty;

licensed crowd controller means a person who holds, under the Private Security Act 2004, a private security individual operator licence that authorises that person to act as a crowd controller;

non‑compliance history period means the period from 1 October 4 years preceding the year in respect of which the renewal fee is payable until 30 September 2 years preceding the year in respect of which the renewal fee is payable;

open format means a published specification for storing digital data that is free of legal restrictions on its use and able to be implemented by both proprietary and free or open source software (such as a bitmap, jpg or tiff file);

proprietary format means a file format that is covered by a patent or copyright and is able to be implemented only by proprietary software;

relevant period means the period from 1 October in the year 2 years preceding the year in respect of which the renewal fee is payable to 30 September in the year preceding the year in respect of which the renewal fee is payable;

risk criteria means the factors taken into account when calculating a risk fee in accordance with regulation 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 or 31 (as the case requires);

regional or remote area means a locality specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6 with the corresponding postcode specified in Column 2 in relation to that locality;