s.8Operators to be licensed
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Section 8Part 0 —

Operators to be licensed

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No person shall operate tourist accommodation unless licensed in that behalf by the Board.
On or before the prescribed day in each year every operator desiring to be licensed shall make application to the Board through the Director in the prescribed form and shall tender with such application the prescribed fee.
For the purposes of subsection (2) "the prescribed day" means —
in respect of an application for a licence to operate a group of apartments, a cottage colony or a guesthouse, 1st August; and
in respect of an application to operate a hotel, 1st October.
Licences granted under this section shall, subject to section 9(3) expire —
on 31st August in each year, in respect of a licence to operate a group of apartments, a cottage colony or a guesthouse; and
on 31st October in each year, in respect of a licence to operate a hotel.
Licences shall be renewable upon application made to the Board through the Director in the prescribed form accompanied by the prescribed fee.
Subject to section 13, the Board shall grant or renew licences, as the case may be, to those operators who make application in that behalf in the prescribed manner, pay the prescribed fee and conform with the prescribed minimum requirements.
Before granting or renewing a licence under subsection (6), the Board shall require and have regard to reports about the tourist accommodation from or on behalf of —
the Chief Environmental Health Officer appointed under section 3(1) of the Public Health Law, 1981 [Law 6 of 1981];
the Chief Fire Officer appointed under section 3 of the Fire Brigade Law (1995 Revision);
the Director; and
such other public servant as it considers desirable.
Any person mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (7) may enter on and inspect any tourist accommodation or any place within the curtilage thereof at any reasonable time for the purpose of making the report to the Board required by subsection (7), and shall forthwith after such entry and inspection make his report.
Whoever prevents or obstructs the entry onto tourist accommodation or any place within the curtilage thereof of any person in the execution of his duty under subsection (8) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
The grant or renewal of a licence under this section shall be made by the Board —
on or before 1st September in each year in respect of a licence to operate a group of apartments, a cottage colony or a guesthouse; and
on or before 1st November in each year in respect of a licence to operate a hotel.
In granting licences the Board shall classify the tourist accommodation in respect of which the licence is granted in the category of a guesthouse, a cottage colony, a group of apartments or a hotel, as the case may be, and shall issue the licence in the prescribed form to the operator who shall, in a conspicuous place and so that it is easily legible, display it in the office from which the management of the relevant tourist accommodation is carried on.

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