Singapore legislation

Section 48

of Fire Safety Act 1993

Section 48

Licence required to carry on business of providing alarm monitoring services

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(1)

A person must not carry on a business of providing alarm monitoring services at a building to be used as an alarm monitoring station unless the person is authorised to do so at that building by a licence under section 50.

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(2)

A person must not advertise or otherwise hold out that the person is carrying on a business of providing alarm monitoring services at a building to be used as an alarm monitoring station unless the person is authorised to carry on such a business at that building by a licence under section 50.

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(3)

Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

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(4)

In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (3), it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant intended to commit the offence.

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(5)

The offence under subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.[22H

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