Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act 2025

WRA’s power to require information

12 Power to require information

(1) WRA may issue a notice to a person mentioned in subsection (2), requiring that person to provide information or a document that is—

(a) of a description specified in the notice, and

(b) relevant to the exercise by WRA of its functions under this Part.

(2) The persons to whom WRA may issue a notice under subsection (1) are—

(a) a VAP (regardless of whether the VAP is registered);

(b) a person WRA considers may be, or may have been, a VAP;

(c) a person that assists with or facilitates the provision of visitor accommodation by a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

(3) A person issued a notice under subsection (1) must, if the person has or has access to the information or document in question, provide the information or document—

(a) in the required form, and

(b) on or before—

(i) the date specified in the notice, or

(ii) such other date as may be agreed by the person and WRA.

(4) A notice under subsection (1) must set out information about rights of review and appeal.

(5) If the person has requested a review of, or made an appeal against, the decision to issue the notice or a requirement in it, subsection (3)(b) ceases to apply to the notice.

13 Penalties for failure to comply with notice under section 12

(1) A person that fails to comply with section 12(3) is liable to a penalty of £100.

(2) If the person fails to provide WRA with the information or document in question, in the required form, by the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day a penalty notice relating to the penalty under subsection (1) is issued (“the initial penalty period”), the person—

(a) is liable to a penalty of £10 for each day after the end of that period, up to and including the 30th day, on which the failure continues, and

(b) is liable to a penalty of £1000 for the 31st day on which the failure continues.

(3) In calculating the initial penalty period, no account is to be taken of any day on which a decision relating to the penalty under subsection (1) is the subject of—

(a) a review for which a notice of the conclusions has not yet been issued, or

(b) an appeal that has not yet been finally determined or withdrawn.