Security Industry Act 1997
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10 Master licences
10 Master licences
(1) Master licences are to be classified into subclasses. Those subclasses, and the authority they confer, are as follows—
(a) class MA—authorises the holder, who is a self-employed individual and who holds a class 1 or class 2 licence, or both, to provide the holder’s services to carry on security activities,
(b) class MB—authorises the holder to provide no more than 3 persons on any one day to carry on security activities, each of whom must be the holder of a class 1 or class 2 licence,
(c) class MC—authorises the holder to provide no more than 14 persons on any one day to carry on security activities, each of whom must be the holder of a class 1 or class 2 licence,
(d) class MD—authorises the holder to provide no more than 49 persons on any one day to carry on security activities, each of whom must be the holder of a class 1 or class 2 licence,
(e) class ME—authorises the holder to provide an unlimited number of persons on any one day to carry on security activities, each of whom must be the holder of a class 1 or class 2 licence.
(2) Each class of master licence also authorises the holder to carry on the security activities authorised under a class 2B licence.
(3) (Repealed)
s 10: Am 1998 No 54, Sch 1.16 [2] [3]; 2005 No 63, Sch 1 [12]; 2008 No 113, Sch 1 [3]; 2012 No 49, Sch 1 [17] [18]; 2016 No 27, Sch 1.24 [1]; 2022 No 52, Sch 1[10]–[14]; 2025 No 60, Sch 2.1[3].