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Private Guard Companies Act

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PRIVATE GUARD COMPANIES ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Licensing of Private Guard Companies

SECTION

1. Private guard companies to be licensed.

2. Application for licence.

3. Granting of licence to operate.

4. Nature and effect of licence to operate.

5. Registered address.

6. Licence to be displayed.

7. Employees to be approved.

8. Application for employee’s approval.

9. Nature and effect of employee’s approval.

10. Issue of identity card.

11. Renewal of licence and revocation.

12. Replacement of lost licences.

13. Restriction on grant of licence or approval.

PARTIl

Control and administration

14. Records and annual returns.

15. Company not entitled to fees, etc., unless licensed.

16. Uniforms to be approved.

17. Prohibition of firearms, etc.

18. Training syllabus to be approved.

19. Licensing authority for private guard companies.

PART III

Prohibited activities, offences, penalties, etc.

20. Licensees not to act as debt collectors.

21. Acting as police officer prohibited.

22. Expression “private detective” prohibited.

23. Information confidential.

24. Offences.

25. Advertisement as to name and address.

26. Private guard company not to sell or dispose of its licence.

27. Unlawful entry.

SECTION

28. Misrepresentations.

29. Company not to direct any person to carry out any function for which the co mpany is not licensed.

30. Company not to employ persons in respect of whom approval is refused or cancelled.

31. Approval not to confer special powers.

32. Penalty for offences.

33. Offences by bodies corporate and unincorporate.

34. General power to revoke licences.

35. Regulations.

36. Interpretation, exemption, etc.

37. Short title.

PART IV

Supplementary

SCHEDULE

Forms

PRIVATE GUARD COMPANIES ACT

An Act to regulate and provide for the licensing of private guard companies which must be wholly owned by Nigerians and other matters ancillary thereto.

[1986 No. 23.]

[Commencement.] PART I

Licensing of Private Guard Companies

1. Private guard companies to be licensed

[15th December, 1986]

(1) As from the commencement of this Act, no organisation shall perfo rm the service of watching, guarding, patrolling or carrying of money for the purpose of providing pro – tection against crime unless the organisation concerned–

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