Displaying your SIA licence when working in an amusement arcade
Published 27 July 2021
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1. Request
When working in an amusement arcade, does your SIA licence need to be on show (showing your photo and information)?
2. Response
As I’m sure you are aware, it is a condition of your licensed status that you wear the licence where the front can be seen at all times when engaging in designated licensable activity unless you have reported it lost or stolen, or it is in our possession.
The exceptions to this are if you can demonstrate that the nature of that conduct on that occasion requires that you should not be immediately identifiable as someone engaging in such conduct. On such occasions you must carry your licence on you and be able to produce it on request. This allows store detectives or close protection operatives to perform licensable activities without the need to be identifiable. This cannot apply to vehicle immobilisers.
[Reference: FOI 0259]