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National Key Points Act, 1980 (Act No. 102 of 1980)

Regulations

Regulations regarding the Appointment of Guards by Owners of National Key Points and the Powers of such Guards

7. Employment, and hiring of services, of security guards

[Regulation 7 heading substituted by regulation 3 of Notice No. R. 874 of 1985]

 

(1) An owner shall employ a security guard who has been provisionally employed, and to whom a certificate of competency has been issued, and who has signed a declaration substantially in the form of Annexure A, permanently as a security guard, and shall on such employment issue to the guard an appropriate identity document in which he under his signature or official stamp certifies that the holder thereof has been employed as a security guard in respect of the Key Point concerned.

[Regulation 7(1) substituted by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 874 of 1985]

 

(2) The identity document shall contain particulars of the holder's christian names and surname, and a photo of his head and shoulders.

 

(3) An authorised security guard shall at all times when he performs service at the Key Point concerned, carry his identity document on his person.

 

(4) An authorised security guard shall, when he performs service at a Key Point, be armed with a fire-arm unless the Minister in the case of a specified authorised security guard, or a category of such guards, otherwise directs.