Fire Safety Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3B · Alarm Monitoring Services
48. Licence required to carry on business of providing alarm monitoring services
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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.
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.
alarm monitoring station
“alarm monitoring station” means any building at which an alarm monitoring service is carried out;
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.
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.
The offence under subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.[22H