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

10 Penalties for failure to notify WRA of changes and inaccuracies

(1) A VAP that fails to comply with section 9(1) is liable to a penalty of £100.

(2) A penalty notice issued to a VAP in respect of a penalty to which the VAP is liable under subsection (1) must specify the information WRA considers to be inaccurate.

(3) If the VAP fails to give WRA the notice required by section 9(1)(a) or (b) in respect of the information specified in the penalty notice by the end of the period of 30 days beginning with the day the penalty notice is issued (“the initial penalty period”), the VAP—

(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.

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(b) an appeal that has not yet been finally determined or withdrawn.

(5) This section does not apply in relation to a person where the nature of the information that WRA considers to be inaccurate means that the person is liable to a penalty under—

(a) section 7 (penalties for failing to register in respect of premises), or

(b) section 15 (penalties where a person fails to apply for removal from the register).

(6) A person that—

(a) ceases to be a VAP, but

(b) became liable to a penalty under this section while the person was a VAP,

remains liable to the penalty.