Schedule 1 – Information to Be Included in the Register of Visitor Accommodation Providers
195.Schedule 1 is introduced by section 4.
Paragraphs 1 to 3 – Information to be included in the register
196.Paragraph 1 sets out the information a VAP’s entry must contain.
197.Paragraph 2 sets out the information a VAP’s entry must include about the premises at which the VAP provides, or offers to provide, visitor accommodation.
198.Paragraph 3 sets out that, where WRA has registered a person under section 8 of the Act or has made changes to a person’s entry under section 11 of the Act (that is, where there has been no application by the person, or no notice from a person of a change to their details), the entry must show that the person was registered, or the entry changed, by WRA and indicate the information in question.
199.If a VAP then provides WRA with the information necessary to satisfy WRA that the VAP’s entry is complete and accurate then the requirement under paragraph 3 to indicate WRA’s action no longer applies.
Paragraph 4 – Circumstances in which information need not be included in the register
200.Paragraph 4 sets out that the information required by paragraphs 1 and 2 need not be included where WRA does not have that information or considers the information is or is likely to be inaccurate.
201.If WRA includes information it considers is, or is likely to be, inaccurate, it may indicate in the register that this information is, or is likely to be, inaccurate.
Paragraph 5 – Partnerships and unincorporated bodies
202.Paragraph 5(a) sets out that, where a VAP is a partnership or unincorporated body, a reference in paragraph 1(a) in Schedule 1 is a reference to the name of each member of the partnership or managing member of the unincorporated body.
203.Where a VAP is a partnership or unincorporated body, paragraph 5(b) requires the register to contain the address of each member of the partnership and each managing member of the unincorporated body.
Paragraph 6 – Interpretation
204.Paragraph 5 states that for the purpose of the Schedule the business address of a partnership, a body corporate or an unincorporated body, is the address of its registered or principal office, and “
