TOURIST AGENTS (LICENSING) ACT.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
Section
2. Tourist agents to be licensed.
4. Refusal to issue a licence.
7. Power to inquire into complaints.
8. Appointment of licensing officers.
11. Offences by corporate bodies.
CHAPTER 100
TOURIST AGENTS (LICENSING) ACT.
Commencement: 15 September, 1972.
An Act to make provision for licensing, regulating and controlling the business of tourist agents and for other matters connected therewith.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) "business of a tourist agent" includes negotiating whether by correspondence or otherwise, soliciting, canvassing, or accepting business connected with the tourist industry with any person;
(b) "licensing officer" means a person appointed to be a licensing officer under section 8;
(c) "Minister" means the Minister to whom functions under this Act are assigned;
(d) "tourist agent" includes a travel agent or tour operator or any person who, for reward, undertakes to provide or perform for tourists and other members of the public in relation to tours and travel within or outside Uganda, the provision of transport (including procuration of tickets), accommodation, professional advice on tourism and other travel matters relating to tourism.
2. Tourist agents to be licensed.
(1) No person may carry on, or hold himself or herself out as carrying on, the business of a tourist agent, unless he or she is the holder of a valid licence issued to him or her for that purpose by a licensing officer; but a person shall not, by virtue of this subsection, be deemed to be, or to hold himself or herself out as, a tourist agent by reason only that—
(a) he or she accepts bookings relating to any scheduled or systematic transport service within or outside Uganda for any person; or
(b) he or she accepts booking for any person in any hotel or lodge in Uganda.
(2) No person may take and use the title of, or describe himself or herself as, a tourist agent unless he or she is the holder of a valid licence issued to him or her by a licensing officer authorising him or her to carry on the business of a tourist agent.
(3) Any person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 10,000 shillings or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both.
(1) An application for the grant or renewal of a licence to carry on the business of a tourist agent shall be made to a licensing officer on the prescribed form giving such information as the licensing officer may require, and shall be signed by the applicant or oth
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