### Security and Guarding Services Ordinance 《保安及護衞服務條例》

1. Short title
(Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Security and Guarding Services Ordinance.
(2)-(3) (Omitted as spent—E.R. 2 of 2014)

2. Interpretation
In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
Authority (管理委員會) means the Security and Guarding Services Industry Authority established under section 4;
Commissioner (處長) means the Commissioner of Police or any police officer acting under and in accordance with an authorization conferred on him under section 27;
company (公司) means a body corporate—
(a) incorporated under the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622); (Amended 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(ab) incorporated under a former Companies Ordinance as defined by section 2(1) of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622); or (Added 28 of 2012 ss. 912 & 920)
(b) incorporated by any other Ordinance;

holder of a permit (持證人) means a person to whom a permit has been issued;
licence (牌照) means a licence issued under section 21 or renewed under section 23;
licensee (持牌人) means a person to whom a licence has been issued;
permit (許可證) means a permit issued under section 14 or renewed under section 15;
requisition notice (要求召開會議通知書) means a notice given under section 5A(2); (Added 25 of 2000 s. 2)
Secretary (秘書) means the Secretary to the Authority appointed under section 4(4);
security device (保安裝置) means a device designed or adapted to be installed in any premises or place, except on or in a vehicle, for the purpose of detecting or recording— (Amended 25 of 2000 s. 2)
(a) the occurrence of any offence; or
(b) the presence of an intruder or of an object that persons are, for reasons of security, not permitted to bring onto the premises or place or any other premises or place;

security work (保安工作) means any of the following activities—
(a) guarding any property;
(b) guarding any person or place for the purpose of preventing or detecting the occurrence of any offence; (Replaced 25 of 2000 s. 2)
(c) installing, maintaining or repairing a security device;
(d) designing for any particular premises or place a system incorporating a security device.

### Security and Guarding Services Ordinance 《保安及護衞服務條例》

3. Application
(1) Part II does not apply to any member of a class of persons specified in Schedule 1 when acting in his capacity as such member.
(2) In relation to any person in respect of whom an exemption has been granted under section 8, this Ordinance applies subject to the terms of that exemption.

4. Security and Guarding Services Industry Authority
(1) There shall be a “Security and Guarding Services Industry Authority”. (Amended E.R. 3 of 2022)
(2) The Authority shall consist of—
(a) the Chairman of the Authority, who shall be appointed by the Governor;
(b) the Secretary for Security or his representative; and
(c) 5 other persons appointed by the Governor. (Amended 25 of 2000 s. 3)
(3) The Authority shall appoint one of the members of the Authority (other than the Chairman of the Authority) as Vice-chairman.
(4) The Secretary for Security shall appoint a Secretary to the Authority.
(5) The Chairman of the Authority and other members of the Authority appointed under subsection (2)(c) may be remunerated and the amount (if any) of their remuneration shall be determined by the Governor, but this subsection does not authorize the payment of remuneration to any person employed full time as a public officer.
(6) Every appointment under subsection (2)(a) and (c) shall be notified in the Gazette.

5. Meetings of the Authority
(1) The Authority shall meet at such times and at such places as the Chairman of the Authority shall direct.
(2) If the Chairman of the Authority is precluded by illness, absence from Hong Kong or any other cause from making a direction under subsection (1), the Authority shall meet at such times and at such places as the Vice-chairman shall direct.
(3) 4 members of the Authority shall constitute a quorum at meetings of the Authority. (Amended 25 of 2000 s. 4)
(4) The Chairman of the Authority or, if he is absent, the Vice-chairman shall preside at meetings of the Authority.
(5) At meetings of the Authority all questions shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members of the Authority present and, where voting is equally divided, the Chairman of the Authority or, if he is absent, the Vice-chairman shall have a casting vote.
(6) The Authority may regulate the procedure and conduct of its meetings.
(7) Meetings of the Authority to hear any application under this Ordinance shall be open to the public except where the Authority is satisfied that this would not be in the public interest.

### Security and Guarding Services Ordinance 《保安及護衞服務條例》

5A. Transaction of business by the circulation of papers
(1) The Authority may transact any of its business, other than business specified in subsection (4), by the circulation of papers; and, subject to subsections (2) and (3), a resolution in writing which is approved in writing by a majority of the members of the Authority shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been a resolution passed at a meeting of the Authority by the votes of the members so approving the resolution in writing.
(2) Any member of the Authority may, by notice in writing to the Secretary within 7 days after the date on which the Secretary circulates the papers, require any business which is being transacted by circulation of papers to be transacted at a meeting of the Authority.
(3) Where, in respect of any business being transacted by the circulation of papers, a notice is given to the Secretary under subsection (2), any resolution approved in writing under subsection (1) in respect of the business shall be void.
(4) This section does not apply to the following business of the Authority—
(a) an application for a variation of the conditions of a permit under section 16;
(b) an application for a revocation or suspension of a permit under section 18;
(c) an application for a revocation of a licence under section 25;
(d) an application for a licence, an application for renewal of a licence or an application for variation of the conditions of a licence except as provided in section 20 or that section as applied by section 23(4), or in section 24 or 24A (as the case may be).
(Added 25 of 2000 s. 5)