Crime and Security Act 2010

43 Extension of approval scheme

(1) The Private Security Industry Act 2001 is amended as follows.

(2) For the italic heading before section 14 (“Approved contractors”) there is substituted “Approval scheme”.

(3) In section 14 (register of approved contractors)—

(a) in the heading, for “contractors” there is substituted “persons”;

(b) in subsection (1), for “approved providers of security industry services” there is substituted “approved persons undertaking security activities”;

(c) after that subsection there is inserted—

“(1A) For the purposes of this section, the following undertake security activities—

(a) a person providing security industry services; and

(b) a person who employs an individual to carry out the activities of a security operative on his behalf.”;

(d) in subsection (3)(c), after “services” there is inserted “or activities”.

(4) In section 15 (arrangements for the grant of approvals), for subsection (1) there is substituted—

“(1) It shall be the duty of the Authority to secure that there are arrangements in force for granting approvals to persons to whom this section applies.

(1A) This section applies to—

(a) a person who provides security industry services and seeks approval in respect of any such services that he is providing or proposes to provide; and

(b) a person who employs an individual to carry out the activities of a security operative on his behalf and seeks approval in respect of those activities or other such activities that he proposes to employ an individual to carry out.”

(5) In that section, in subsection (2)—

(a) in paragraphs (a) and (b), after “services” there is inserted “or activities”;

(b) in paragraph (c), after “services” there is inserted “or carrying out of the activities”.

(6) In that section, in subsection (3)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “services” there is inserted “or securing the carrying out of the activities”;

(b) in paragraph (d), at the end there is inserted “or activities”.

(7) In section 16 (right to use approved status)—

(a) in subsection (1) the words “as an approved provider of security industry services” are repealed;

(b) in subsection (2)(a), the words “as an approved provider of any security industry services” are repealed.

(8) In section 17 (imposition of requirements for approval), in subsection (1)—

(a) after “provide that” there is inserted “(a)”;

(b) at the end there is inserted “; and

“(b) persons of prescribed descriptions are to be prohibited from securing that activities of a security operative are carried out on their behalf by an employee unless they are for the time being approved in respect of those activities in accordance with arrangements under section 15.”

(9) In that section, in subsection (3)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “services” there is inserted “or activities”;

(b) in paragraph (b), after “services” there is inserted “or employing an individual to carry out those activities”;

(c) after “in respect of those services” there is inserted “or activities”.

(10) In that section, in subsection (5)—

(a) after “any services” there is inserted “or activities”;

(b) in paragraph (a), after “those services” there is inserted “or the carrying out of those activities”.