Section 4 — Persons or Private Security Agency not to engage or provide private security guard without licence.

4. Persons or Private Security Agency not to engage or provide private security guard without 

licence.—No person shall carry on or commence the business of private security agency, unless he holds 

a licence issued under this Act: 

Provided that the person carrying on the business of private security agency, immediately before the 

commencement of this Act, may continue to do so for a period of one year from the date of such 

commencement and if he has made an application for such licence within the said period of one year, till 

the disposal of such application: 

                                                           
1. The words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule  

(w.e.f. 31-10-2019). 

2. 14th March, 2006, vide notification No. S.O. 317(E), dated 15th March, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II,          

sec. 3(ii). 



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Provided further that no private security agency shall provide private security abroad without 

obtaining permission of the Controlling Authority, which shall consult the Central Government before 

according such permission.