Section 19: Licensing authority for private guard companies

(1) There shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a licensing authority for private guard companies, who shall be an officer in the Ministry for which the Minister has responsibility or such other public officer as may be designated in that behalf by the Minister.
(2) The powers conferred on the Minister under this Act (including the power to grant a licence to a private guard company under section 3 of this Act) may, without prejudice to the exercise of any such power by the Minister, be exercisable by the licensing authority if so authorised either generally or specially in that behalf by the Minister and the expression "licensing authority" wherever used in this Act shall be construed accordingly.