24. Tourist guide badge

(1)

Upon granting or renewing a tourist guide licence under section 23, the Director shall issue the licensed tourist guide with a tourist guide badge representing that he is the holder of that licence.

(2)

A licensed tourist guide shall —

(a)

wear his tourist guide badge prominently on his person at all times when he acts as a tourist guide; and

(b)

produce his tourist guide badge for inspection upon being required to do so by the Director or an authorised officer.

(3)

Any person issued with tourist guide badge under this section who —

(a)

causes or permits his tourist guide badge to be in the possession of any other person; and

(b)

knows or ought reasonably to know that, or is reckless as to whether, the badge is or will be used by the other person in connection with identification or acting as a tourist guide, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

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(4)

Any person who —

(a)

alters without lawful authority or forges a tourist guide badge;

(b)

sells a tourist guide badge or a false tourist guide badge; or

(c)

in connection with identification or acting as a tourist guide uses or has in his possession a tourist guide badge which is not issued to him by the Director or a false tourist guide badge, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

(5)

The reference to a tourist guide badge in subsection (3) shall include a reference to a tourist guide badge in respect of an expired, or a cancelled, revoked or suspended, tourist guide licence.

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