Travel Agents Act

This Act may be cited as the Tra~el Agents Act.

"the Board" means the Brunei Economic De-velopment Board established under section 3 of the Brunei Economic Development Board Act;

"Licence" means a licence issued under this Act;

"Licensee" means any person who holds a licence granted to him or on his behalf.

Short title

Interpret-ation

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as relieving any Application person from the requirements of any written law relating to the registration of business names, companies and co-operative societies or the payment of any fee in respect of such registration.

Subject to the provisions of this section, a person Business of carries on the business of a travel agent if that person -

sells tickets entitling an individual to travel, or otherwise arranges for a person a right of pas-sage on any conveyance; or

sells to, or arranges or makes available for, a person rights of passage to, and hotel or other accommodation at, one or more places (being places within or beyond Brunei, or some of which are within and others of which are beyond Brunei);

purchase for resale the right of passage on any conveyance; or

carries out any activity which may be pre-scribed; or

holds himself out as, or advertises that he is, willing to carrying on any activity referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), or (d).

Any individual does not carry on the business of a travel agent by reason only of carrying on in the course of his employment any activity referred to in subsection (1).

A person. does not carry on the business of a travel agent in respect of any activity referred to in -

( 1) The Board shall be responsible for the adminis-Board tration of this Act and may authorise any of its officers or a {~~~h~siblc

Committee to exercise any of the powers conferred and administrati-on ot th1s Act perform any of the functions imposed upon the Board by this Act on its behalf.

For the purpose of this section, the Board shall have the power to establish a Committee which shall consist of such number of members whether appointed from amongst members of the Board or not as the Board may think appropriate.