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Security and Investigations Agents Act 2002
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### 4 Requirement for licence
> [*\[Section 4 Substituted by No. 58 of 2005, s. 7, Applied:01 Jan 2006\]*](/view/html/inforce/2006-01-01/act-2005-058#GS7@EN) [*\[Section 4 Substituted by No. 39 of 2010, s. 7, Applied:01 Jul 2011\]*](/view/html/inforce/2011-07-01/act-2010-039#GS7@EN) [*\[Section 4 Substituted by No. 29 of 2022, s. 87, Applied:14 Dec 2022\]*](/view/html/inforce/2022-12-14/act-2022-029#GS87@EN)
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> > (1) A person must not undertake any commercial agent activities, crowd control agent activities, security agent activities or inquiry agent activities unless the person is –
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> > > > (a) the holder of an agent licence granted by the Director in accordance with this Part; or
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> > > > (b) entitled to hold an agent licence by virtue of holding deemed registration.
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> > Penalty: In the case of –
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> > > > (a) a body corporate, 1 000 penalty units; and
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> > > > (b) a natural person, 200 penalty units.
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> > (2) A person must not undertake any commercial employee activities, crowd control employee activities or security employee activities unless the person is –
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> > > > (a) the holder of an employee licence granted by the Director under this Part; or
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> > > > (b) entitled to hold an employee licence by virtue of holding deemed registration.
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> > Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.