Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2025

This Order is the Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 1 September 2025.

In this Order, “public agency” means —

a Ministry or department of the Government;

an Organ of State; or

a body corporate established by or under a public Act for the purposes of a public function.

Section 6 of the Act does not apply to any person who carries out any of the functions of a private investigator (within the meaning of section 5 of the Act) in the course of the person’s appointment under any written law or under an agreement or arrangement with a public agency, to conduct any investigation or enforcement in connection with the discharge of —

any function of the public agency; or (b)any function under any written law administered by the public agency.

Section 7 of the Act does not apply to any person —

who supplies to a public agency, for reward; or

who advertises, or in any way holds out, to a public agency, that the person supplies for reward, or is willing to supply for reward,the services of a private investigator for the purpose of an appointment mentioned in paragraph 3.

Section 8 of the Act does not apply to the employer of any person mentioned in paragraph 3 who carries out the functions of a private investigator in the manner described in that paragraph.

This Order does not apply to —

any person to whom the Act does not apply by virtue of section 3 of the Act; or

any person exempted by paragraph 3(1)(a) or 4(a) of the Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2009 (G.N. No. S 172/2009).