Jersey Law 16/1949

 

TOURISM (AMENDMENT) (JERSEY) LAW, 1949.

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A LAW   to amend the Tourism (Jersey) Law, 1948, sanctioned by Order of His Majesty in Council of the

 

29th day of SEPTEMBER, 1949.

 

(Registered on the 17th day of October, 1949).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 25th day of May, 1949.

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of His Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law :  -

ARTICLE 1

(1)           Immediately after Article 7 of the Tourism (Jersey) Law, 1948,1 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”) there shall be inserted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 7A

CLASSIFICATION OF PREMISES

(1)          For the purposes of this Law, the Committee shall establish and maintain registers of premises classified according to such matters relating to the general character thereof and the type of accommodation and services provided therein, and to such other matters as the Committee may by order prescribe :

Provided that one such register shall relate exclusively to premises classified as holiday camps.

(2)          There shall be entered in the several registers respectively the following matters in respect of the premises registered therein, that is to say –

(a)     the full name, address and description of the proprietor ;

(b)     the name of the establishment and the address or situation of the premises ;

(c)     such other particulars as the Committee may consider necessary or expedient.

(3)          Premises registered in any one of the registers shall not, while so registered, be capable of being registered in any other of the registers.”

(2)           In the definition of “register” in Article 1 of the principal Law,2 for the words “Article 5” there shall be substituted the words “Article 7a”.

(3)           At the end of paragraph (6) of Article 11 of the principal Law3 there shall be inserted the following –

“In this paragraph ‘register of holiday camps’ means the register of premises classified as holiday camps in pursuance of Article 7a of this Law.”

(4)           Articles 5 and 64 of the principal Law are hereby repealed.

ARTICLE 2

For Article 19 of the principal Law5 there shall be substituted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 19

RESTRICTION ON DESCRIPTION AND ADVERTISING OF PREMISES

(1)          It shall not be lawful for the proprietor of any premises not being registered premises to describe or hold out, or procure any person to describe or hold out, such premises as being registered premises.

(2)          It shall not be lawful for the registered proprietor of any registered premises to print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any advertisement or advertising matter relating to the premises, unless the designation of the register in which the premises are registered is stated in such advertisement or advertising matter.

(3)          If any person acts in contravention of the provisions of this Article, he shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds sterling.”

ARTICLE 3

This Law shall come into force on the promulgation thereof :

Provided that nothing in Article 1 of this Law shall affect the operation of the principal Law in relation to any registration of premises expiring on the thirty-first day of December, 1949, whether such registration be effected before or after the commencement of this Law.

ARTICLE 4

This Law may be cited as the Tourism (Amendment) (Jersey) Law, 1949, and this Law and the principal Law may be cited together as the Tourism (Jersey) Laws, 1948 and 1949.

To be printed, published and posted.

 

F.DE L. BOIS,

 

Greffier of the States.