{"id":137300,"date":"2023-09-27T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=137300"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T00:05:04","slug":"updating-of-licensing-conditions-on-regulation-and-registration-of-private-security-agencies-by-the-ministry-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/27\/updating-of-licensing-conditions-on-regulation-and-registration-of-private-security-agencies-by-the-ministry-of-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating of Licensing Conditions on Regulation and Registration of Private Security Agencies by the Ministry of Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Pursuant to the Private Security Agencies Regularization Act No. 45 of 1998, the Ministry of Defence has taken steps to update the licensing conditions for the regulation and registration of private security agencies currently registered under the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, all registered institutions must submit applications for extension for the next 02 years before&nbsp; three (03) months to the expiration of the license.&nbsp; Operating without a valid license is an offense punishable under the Private Security Agencies Regulating Act No. 45 of 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information and applications for extension of private security agency license and registration can be obtained from the Defence Ministry\u2019s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defence.lk\">www.defence.lk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre Pursuant to the Private Security Agencies Regularization Act No. 45 of 1998, the Ministry of Defence has taken steps to update the licensing conditions for the regulation and registration of private security agencies currently registered under the Ministry of Defence. Accordingly, all registered institutions must submit applications for extension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}