The purpose of this Code is to provide binding rules that all security service providers and employers of in-house security officers must obey in order to—
| (a) | promote, achieve and maintain a trustworthy and professional private security industry which acts in terms of the law applicable to the members of the industry; |
| (b) | promote, achieve and maintain compliance by security service providers with a set of minimum standards of conduct which is necessary to realise the objects of the Authority; |
| (c) | promote, achieve and maintain compliance by security service providers with their obligations towards the State, the Authority, consumers of security services, the public, and the private security industry in general; |
| (d) | ensure the payment of the applicable minimum wages and compliance with standards aimed at preventing exploitation or abuse of employees in the private security industry, including employees used to protect or safeguard merely the employer's own property or other interests, or persons or property on the premises of, or under the control of the employer; and |
| (e) | provide for matters incidental to the above. |
