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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007/schedule-6/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/6",
  "legislation_title": "Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/justice-and-security-northern-ireland-act-2007",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall grant an application for a licence unless satisfied that any of Conditions 1 to 4 applies.\n(2) Condition 1 for the refusal of a licence is that a proscribed organisation, or an organisation which appears to the Secretary of State to be closely associated with a proscribed organisation, would be likely to benefit from the licence (whether or not a condition were imposed under paragraph 10).\n(3) Condition 2 for the refusal of a licence is that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that any of the following is engaged in criminal activity—\n(a) a business involving the provision for reward of security services which is, was or is proposed to be carried on by the applicant,\n(b) a person whom the applicant employs or proposes to employ as a security guard,\n(c) a partner or proposed partner of the applicant (where the applicant is an individual),\n(d) a member or proposed member of the applicant (where the applicant is a partnership), and\n(e) an officer or proposed officer of the applicant (where the applicant is a body corporate).\n(4) Condition 3 for the refusal of a licence is that the applicant has persistently failed to comply with the requirements of this Schedule.\n(5) Condition 4 for the refusal of a licence is that the applicant has failed to comply with a condition imposed under paragraph 10.\n(6) In Condition 1 a reference to a benefit is a reference to any benefit—\n(a) whether direct or indirect, and\n(b) whether financial or not.\n(7) Paragraph 8(5) shall have effect for the purposes of Condition 2.\n(8) In Condition 3 the reference to this Schedule includes a reference to—\n(a) Part V of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 24) (private security services),\n(b) Part V of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996 (c. 22) (private security services), and\n(c) Schedule 13 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) (Northern Ireland: private security services).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 repealed (N.I) (1.12.2009) by The Private Security Industry Act 2001 (Designated Activities) (Northern Ireland) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/3048), art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/6/schedule/6/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:55.493954+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}