Private Security Industry Act 2007 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Inspections and Powers of Enforcement
27. Power to search premises
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licensing officer
“licensing officer”, in relation to any provision in this Act, means any licensing officer appointed under section 4(1) for the purposes of that provision, and includes any assistant licensing officer appointed by such a licensing officer under section 4(2) and subject to the licensing officer’s direction and control;
to enter or go to that place and to search the place and all persons found therein;
to seize all documents and things reasonably supposed to have been used or intended to be used in connection with the business which are found in that place or on those persons; and
to detain all those persons until they and the place have been searched.