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(1) Any person other than a member of the Police may, within 1 month after the first date of publication of a notice under subsection (2) of section 21 in respect of an application for a licence, file with the Registrar a notice of objection to the grant of the application.
(2) No objection may be made under this section except on 1 or more of the following grounds:
(a) where the applicant is a person other than a company, that the applicant is not, by reason of his personal character, fitness, or financial position, a proper person to be the holder of the licence:
(b) where the applicant is a company, that it is not, by reason of its financial position or of the nature of any other business carried on or to be carried on by it, a proper person to be the holder of the licence:
(c) where the applicant is a company, that any officer of the company is not, by reason of his personal character or fitness, a proper person to be employed by the company in the course of the business to which the application relates.
(2A) In the case of an application for a security guard's licence, the grounds of objection specified in subsection (2) may relate either to the application as a whole or to any particular class or classes of the business of a security guard that the applicant proposes to carry on.
(3) The notice shall state the grounds of the objection.
(4) The objector shall cause a copy of the notice of objection to be served on the applicant within 7 days after it is filed with the Registrar.
Subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 18 October 1978, by section 6 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83).
