Section 7Part 0 —
Building materials and hotel equipment not to be used for any purpose other than that for which imported
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Subject to section 8, where any building materials or articles of hotel equipment have been imported into the Islands under a licence, such building materials or articles of hotel equipment shall not be sold, exchanged, given away, exported from the Islands or applied for any purpose other than use in connection with the construction or equipment of the relevant hotel.
If any building within the precinct of a hotel is used otherwise than for hotel purposes, without the prior approval of the Governor, at any time within ten years from the grant of a licence under section 4, to import building materials or three years in the case of articles of hotel equipment for use in the construction or equipment of any building within the precinct of that hotel, the person who is the proprietor of the hotel shall forthwith pay to the Governor the full amount of all the customs duties which, but for this Law, would have been payable in respect of that hotel.
Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months; and any sum which may be payable to the Governor under subsection (2) may be recovered by the Governor by suit in the Grand Court.
Any demise or device entered into or made after 1st March, 1979, whereby the availability of the whole or any part of a hotel for the accommodation of transient guests is in any way reduced or prejudiced operates to deprive such hotel of being the subject of any benefit under this Law and renders the proprietor thereof liable to pay in full, with interest at ten per centum per annum any customs duty which, but for the operation of this Law, would have been payable in respect thereof.
Cross References
- Section 8 of Hotels Aid Act
Subject to
- Section 4 of Hotels Aid Act
licence under