Revocation

Your licence will be revoked if:

• You are not the person to whom the named licence should have been issued.
• You do not have the training qualifications that were claimed on application.
• You receive a conviction, caution or warning for a relevant offence.
• You lose, or did not have when you applied, the right to remain or work in the UK.

You licence may also be revoked if:

• You break the conditions on which your licence was issued.
• We receive non-conviction information suggesting that there is a case for having your licence revoked.
• You become subject to detention because of mental disorder.

If we judge it necessary to revoke your licence we will write to you, providing the basis for our decision and inviting you to supply further information. You will then have 21 days from the date on our decision letter to provide a response. Your response may address any factual errors in our assessment (for example, an error of identity, or an error in assessing your competence or criminal history) and we may also invite you to provide mitigating information.

If we do not receive a response from you within the 21 days the decision to revoke your licence will automatically take effect. We will not write again to confirm this. Once the decision to revoke your licence takes effect you will have 21 days in which to exercise a right of appeal to a Magistrate's Court, Sheriff Court or District Court.

If you do send in a response we will give it due consideration, and we will write to you to inform you of our final decision. If we decide it is still necessary to revoke your licence, you will then have 21 days from the date of this second decision letter in which to exercise a right of appeal to a Magistrate's Court, Sheriff Court or District Court.

Please note that costs may be involved with a court appeal, both in lodging the appeal and if you lose the appeal at court. When deciding if you wish to bring an appeal to court you may like to bear in mind the High Court case of Security Industry Authority v Stewart & Others (2007), which ruled that magistrate's courts must follow the criteria set out in our 'Get Licensed' booklet when considering appeals. As an example, magistrate's courts considering decisions we have made as a result of our criminality criteria cannot consider factors outside of those criteria, such as the circumstances or gravity of the offence(s) committed.

Suspension

Licence suspensions have immediate effect. We will consider suspension only where we are reasonably satisfied that a clear threat to public safety could exist if we did not suspend the licence. This usually means that a serious offence has allegedly taken place, where you have been charged but bailed. We will suspend a licence in other circumstances if it is in the public interest to do so.

If we judge it necessary to suspend your licence, we will write to inform you of this, providing the basis for our decision which will have immediate effect. You will then have 21 days in which to exercise a right of appeal to a Magistrate's Court, Sheriff Court or District Court. At the same time you may also wish to tell us of any factual errors in our assessment - for example, an error of identity, or an error in assessing your competence or criminal history.