Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2025

No. S 573

Private Security Industry Act 2007

Private Security Industry
(Exemptions) Order 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Private Security Industry Act 2007, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2025 and comes into operation on 1 September 2025.

Definition

2.  In this Order, “public agency” means —

(a) a Ministry or department of the Government;

(b) an Organ of State; or

(c) a body corporate established by or under a public Act for the purposes of a public function.

Exemption of private investigators appointed by public agency

3.  Section 6 of the Act does not apply to any person who carries out any of the functions of a private investigator (within the meaning of section 5 of the Act) in the course of the person’s appointment under any written law or under an agreement or arrangement with a public agency, to conduct any investigation or enforcement in connection with the discharge of —

(a) any function of the public agency; or

(b) any function under any written law administered by the public agency.

Exemption of suppliers of private investigation services to public agency

4.  Section 7 of the Act does not apply to any person —

(a) who supplies to a public agency, for reward; or

(b) who advertises, or in any way holds out, to a public agency, that the person supplies for reward, or is willing to supply for reward,

the services of a private investigator for the purpose of an appointment mentioned in paragraph 3.

Exemption of employers of private investigators appointed by public agency

5.  Section 8 of the Act does not apply to the employer of any person mentioned in paragraph 3 who carries out the functions of a private investigator in the manner described in that paragraph.

Excluded persons

6.  This Order does not apply to —

(a) any person to whom the Act does not apply by virtue of section 3 of the Act; or

(b) any person exempted by paragraph 3(1)(a) or 4(a) of the Private Security Industry (Exemptions) Order 2009 (G.N. No. S 172/2009).

Made on 29 August 2025.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

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