Jammu and Kashmir Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2015

No: 9 Dated: Oct, 28 2015

The Jammu and Kashmir Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2015

(Act No. IX of 2015)

    An Act to provide for the regulation of private security agencies operating in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and for the matters connected therewith or incident thereto.

    Be it enacted by the State Legislature in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2015.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions. - (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Act" means the Jammu and Kashmir Private Security Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2015 ;

(b) "controlling authority" means the controlling authority appointed under sub-section (1) of section 3 ;

(c) "Government" means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir ;

(d) "licence" means a licence granted under section 6 of the Act ;

(e) "notification" means a notification published in the Government Gazette ;

(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ;

(g) "private security" means security provided by a person or agency, other than a Government agency, department or organization, to protect or guard any person or property or both ;

(h) "private security agency" means a person or body of persons, other than a Government agency, department or organization, engaged in the business of providing private security services including training to private security guards or their supervision or providing private security guards to any industrial or business undertaking or a company or any other person or property ;

(i) "private security guard" means a person providing private security, with or without arms, to another person or property or both and includes a supervisor ;

(j) "Schedule" means the Schedule appended to the Act ;

(k) "State" means the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

3. Appointment of controlling authority. - (1) The Government shall, by notification, designate an officer not below the rank of Special Secretary to the Government to be the controlling authority for the purposes of the Act.

(2) The Government may, for efficient discharge of functions by the controlling authority, provide it with such other officers and staff as the Government considers necessary.