Licence Types

Individuals and companies in certain industry roles must be licensed to work in Tasmania.

You are considered to be acting as a security and investigation agent if you perform one or more of the following work functions:

• CROWD CONTROL AGENT OR CROWD CONTROLLER - (a) screening entry into those premises or that place (b) monitoring or controlling behaviour of person, or otherwise maintaining order, in those premises or that place or (c) removing person from those premises or that place.

• SECURITY AGENT OR SECURITY GUARD - (a) guards property or (b) keeps property under surveillance. Further, a person employed in a shop for the purposes of preventing or minimising shoplifting is guarding property and keeping property under surveillance.

• COMMERCIAL AGENT OR COMMERCIAL SUB AGENT - (a) ascertaining the whereabouts of, or repossessing, a good or chattel that is the subject of a security interest, (b) collecting or requesting the payment of a debt or (c) executing legal process for the enforcement of a judgment or order of a court.

• INQUIRY AGENT - (a) obtaining or providing information with respect to- (i) the personal character or action of any person; or (ii) the business or occupation of any person; (b) obtaining evidence for the purpose of legal proceedings or (c) searching for missing persons.

• BODY CORPORATE APPLICANTS if you intend operating through a company (body corporate).

• MUTUAL RECOGNITION mutual recognition only applies to individuals who hold a current licence in another state or territory.

• WHEN IS A LICENCE NOT REQUIRED under the Security and Investigation Agents Act 2002.