Jersey Law 18/1957

 

TOURISM (AMENDMENT No. 2) (JERSEY) LAW, 1957.

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

 

31st day of JULY, 1957.

 

(Registered on the 31st day of August, 1957).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 17th day of April, 1957.

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

ARTICLE 1

For Article 4 of the Tourism (Jersey) Law, 1948,1 as amended,2 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), there shall be substituted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 4

GENERAL POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE

In addition to the powers specifically conferred, and to the duties imposed, upon the Committee by this Law, it shall be lawful for the Committee to do all or any of the following things, that is to say –

(a)     to provide, or assist, financially or otherwise, in providing, services, sports, amusements, or other facilities, which appear to the Committee to be calculated to improve tourism ;

(b)     to provide, improve and maintain amenities and conditions which appear to the Committee to be likely to affect tourism ;

(c)     to establish or assist in establishing, either in the Island or elsewhere, any form of information bureau or agency in connexion with tourism ;

(d)     to prepare and publish guide-books, itineraries, time-tables and other publications, with or without advertising matter, for the benefit or assistance of tourists ;

(e)     to engage in any other kind of publicity in connexion with tourism ;

(f)      to make charges for any goods supplied or services afforded in connexion with any of the foregoing matters.”

ARTICLE 2

(1)           Immediately after sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (6) of Article 11 of the principal Law,3 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph –

“(aa) may refuse an application for the registration or the renewal of the registration of any premises if the Committee is of opinion that the application ought not, in the public interest, to be granted ;”.

(2)           In sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (6) of Article 11 of the principal Law,4 the words “or if for any other reason the Committee is of opinion that the application ought not, in the public interest, to be granted” are hereby repealed.

(3)           For Article 15 of the principal Law,5 there shall be substituted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 15

CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION

The Committee may at any time cancel the registration of any registered premises, and withdraw the relevant registration certificate, on any grounds on which under paragraph (6) of Article 11 of this Law the registration or the renewal of the registration of the premises might be refused or on the ground that the premises have ceased to be qualified for registration in the register in which they are registered.”

(4)           For the proviso to sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of Article 21 of the principal Law,6 there shall be substituted the following proviso –

“Provided that the Committee may refuse such registration on any grounds on which under Article 15 of this Law it would be entitled to cancel the registration ;”.

(5)           The proviso to sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of Article 21 of the principal Law7 is hereby repealed.

ARTICLE 3

For Article 22 of the principal Law,8 there shall be substituted the following Article –

“ARTICLE 22

RIGHT OF APPEAL

(1)          Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Committee to register or renew the registration of any premises, or by the conditions attached to the registration or the renewal of the registration of any premises, or by the amendment or the cancellation by the Committee of the registration of any premises or by the refusal of the Committee to transfer the registration of any premises, may, within two months of the date of the notification of the decision of the Committee in the matter, appeal to the Inferior Number of the Royal Court, on the ground that the decision of the Committee was unreasonable having regard to all the circumstances of the case.

(2)          Any appeal under this Article may be heard and determined either in term or in vacation.”

ARTICLE 4

This Law may be cited as the Tourism (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law, 1957, and this Law and the Tourism (Jersey) Laws, 1948 and 1949, may be cited together as the Tourism (Jersey) Laws, 1948 to 1957.

To be printed, published and posted.

 

F. DE L. BOIS,

 

Greffier of the States.