Is it legal for a property to employ an elderly person over 60 as a security guard?

Legal analysis: It is legal for security companies to use 60-year-old people as security guards.

Legal basis: Article 16 of the Regulations on the Administration of Security Services, China citizens who have reached the age of 18, are in good health, have good conduct, and have a junior high school education or above can apply for a security guard certificate and engage in security services. If the applicant has passed the examination by the public security organ of the municipal people's government with districts and retained human biological information such as fingerprints, he shall be issued with a security guard certificate. Specific measures for extracting and retaining security guards' fingerprints and other human biological information shall be formulated by the public security department of the State Council.

Seventeenth any of the following circumstances, shall not serve as a security guard:

(1) Being detained for education, compulsory isolation for drug rehabilitation, reeducation through labor or administrative detention for more than three times;

(2) Having received criminal punishment for intentional crime;

(3) The certificate of security guard has been revoked for less than 3 years;

(4) The security guard's certificate has been revoked twice.