s 48 Licence required to carry on business of providing alarm monitoring services
48.—(1) A person must not carry on a business of providing alarm monitoring services at a building to be used as an alarm monitoring station unless the person is authorised to do so at that building by a licence under section 50.[22/2019] (2) A person must not advertise or otherwise hold out that the person is carrying on a business of providing alarm monitoring services at a building to be used as an alarm monitoring station unless the person is authorised to carry on such a business at that building by a licence under section 50.[22/2019] (3) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.[22/2019] (4) In a prosecution for an offence under subsection (3), it is not necessary for the prosecution to prove that the defendant intended to commit the offence.[22/2019] (5) The offence under subsection (3) is a strict liability offence.[22H [22/2019]