Queensland Consolidated Acts

WEAPONS ACT 1990 - SECT 6B

6B Meaning of security guard

(1) A
"security guard" is a person who patrols, protects, watches over or guards (
"protects" ) the person’s property or other persons or other person’s property—

(a) in the course of carrying on a business; or

(b) in the course of employment.

Example—

A jeweller transporting jewellery in the course of carrying on a business who does not engage someone else to guard the jewellery while it is being transported is a ‘security guard’.

Note—

Section 123 provides that a person must not, in performing duties as a security guard, physically possess a weapon unless the person holds a security licence (guard).

(2) However, the following persons are not security guards—

(a) a person who protects property if the protection is carried out in the course of primary production;

(b) a person, other than a security organisation, who engages someone else to protect property for the person.