Security Industry Act 1997

A person may apply to the Commissioner for the grant of a visitor permit to carry on one or more kinds of security activity specified in the application during the period of one or more special events so specified or an event described in the application that the applicant requests be declared to be a special event (referred to in this Part as a proposed special event).

The application must be in the approved form and be accompanied by the fee, and information and particulars, prescribed by the regulations.

The applicant must supply evidence to the Commissioner’s satisfaction of the following requirements (referred to in this Part as the visitor permit eligibility requirements)—

if the applicant is an individual—that the applicant—

is ordinarily resident in another State or Territory, and

is licensed or otherwise authorised in that State or Territory to carry on the activity or activities of the kind proposed to be authorised by the visitor permit,

if the applicant is a corporation—that—

the applicant’s registered office and, if the address of that office is not the address of its principal place of business, its principal place of business is in another State or Territory, and

the applicant is licensed or otherwise authorised in that State or Territory to carry on the activity or activities of the kind proposed to be authorised by the visitor permit.

The Commissioner may require the applicant to verify any relevant information by a statutory declaration or to provide proof of identity (or both) and may require the applicant to provide additional information or particulars.

The Commissioner may carry out all such investigations and enquiries as the Commissioner considers necessary to enable the Commissioner to consider the application properly.

Without limiting subsection (5), the Commissioner may have regard to any criminal intelligence report or other criminal information held (whether in this State or elsewhere) in relation to the applicant.

Section 12 of the Criminal Records Act 1991 does not apply in relation to an application for a visitor permit.