Security Industry Act 1997

Class 1 licences are to be classified into subclasses. Those subclasses, and the authority they confer, are as follows—

class 1A—authorises the licensee to carry on the following activities—

to patrol, protect or guard property while unarmed, whether while static or mobile, and

to act as a crowd controller or in a similar capacity,

class 1B—authorises the licensee to act as a bodyguard or to act in a similar capacity,

class 1C—authorises the licensee to patrol, protect or guard cash-in-transit,

class 1D—authorises the licensee to patrol, protect or guard any property with a dog,

class 1E—authorises the licensee to patrol, protect or guard any property while carrying on monitoring centre operations,

class 1F—authorises the licensee to patrol, protect or guard approved classes of property while armed (but only under the authority of a licence or permit to use or possess firearms under the Firearms Act 1996),

(Repealed)

any other class prescribed by the regulations—authorises the licensee to carry on the security activity prescribed by the regulations in relation to the prescribed class of licence concerned.

The relevant subclass is to be endorsed on each class 1 licence. More than one such subclass may be endorsed on a class 1 licence.

A class 1A, class 1B, class 1C, class 1E or class 1F licence does not authorise the licensee to carry on a security activity with a dog.

A class 1A licence or a class 1F licence does not authorise the licensee to patrol, protect or guard cash-in-transit.