{"ActName":"SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 2010","FootNoteRels":[],"IsFirstSection":"false","act_description":"
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING AND REGULATION OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE SECURITY INDUSTRY IN FIJI
","act_last_updated":"10 August 2026","section_html":"
[SI 3]\u2003Meaning of \u201csecurity activities\u201d
For the purposes of this Act, a person carries on a \u201csecurity activity\u201d if that person carries on within Fiji any of the following activities in the course of conducting a business or in the course of that person\u2019s employment, namely\u2014
(a)acting as a bodyguard or providing close personal protection or acting in any other similar capacity;
(b)acting as a crowd controller, venue controller or bouncer or in any similar capacity;
(c)patrolling, protecting, watching or guarding any property, including property in transit, whether by physical or electronic means, including the conduct of control room operations, monitoring centre operations and protection against damage, arson, flood or other natural disasters;
(d)installing, maintaining, repairing or servicing by physical or electronic means any security equipment, any equipment which the person installing, maintaining, repairing or servicing it represents as security equipment, selling or otherwise supplying, any security equipment;
(e)selling or otherwise supplying security methods or advice;
(f)providing the services of persons to carry on any security activity referred to in this section;
(g)providing advice in relation to security equipment, including supplying product advice in relation to security equipment, identifying and analysing security risks, devising solutions or management strategies for the purpose of addressing and minimising security risks;
(h)providing training or instruction in relation to any security activity referred to in this section other than formal training by a body having suitable training experience or other training provided by a master or individual licence holder;
(i)assessing another person\u2019s knowledge and competence in relation to any security activity referred to in this section and supervising or monitoring any person who is carrying on a security activity authorised by licence;
(j)acting as an agent including as a recruitment agent or for procuring the supply for other persons in or outside Fiji to carry on any security activity referred to in this section;
(k)patrolling, protecting, watching or guarding of property by physical means, includes any such activity which involves the use of patrol dogs; and
(l)any other activity which the Board may from time to time consider to be a security activity and which it may recommend to the Minister for publication in the Gazette.