PART 1

OVERVIEW OF ACT AND KEY TERMS USED IN ACT

Key terms

Visitor accommodation
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In this Act, “visitor accommodation” means—
a
accommodation in a hotel, guesthouse or bed and breakfast accommodation, or other similar accommodation;
b
accommodation in a youth hostel or bunkhouse, or other similar accommodation;
c
a pitch or area—
i
provided for camping;
ii
provided for a mobile home that is not permanently or semi-permanently situated in one place;
d
accommodation (other than accommodation mentioned in paragraph (c)) at a holiday park or holiday resort, or at another similar place;
e
accommodation (other than accommodation mentioned in the preceding paragraphs)—
i
in a mobile home, vessel or other vehicle that is permanently or semi-permanently situated in one place, and
ii
that is offered (whether permanently or from time to time), on a short-term basis, for the purposes of business or leisure travel or educational trips;
f
self-catering accommodation (other than accommodation mentioned in the preceding paragraphs) that is offered (whether permanently or from time to time), on a short-term basis, for the purposes of business or leisure travel or educational trips;
g
any other kind of accommodation that is offered (whether permanently or from time to time), on a short-term basis, for the purposes of business or leisure travel or educational trips.
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But accommodation described in subsection (1) is not visitor accommodation if it is—
a
on a Gypsy and Traveller site;
b
a pitch or area provided for a mobile home, vessel or other vehicle that is permanently or semi-permanently situated in one place;
c
in a mobile home, vessel or other vehicle that is not permanently or semi-permanently situated in one place.
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For the purposes of subsection (1), accommodation is offered on a short-term basis if the visitor accommodation provider offers to provide the accommodation for stays of 31 nights or less (and for that purpose, it does not matter whether the nights are consecutive).
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In this section—
- “Gypsy and Traveller site” (“safle Sipsiwn a Theithwyr”) means land wholly or mainly used for the stationing of mobile homes providing accommodation for—
  1. people of a nomadic habit of life, whatever their race or origin, including—
    1. people who, on grounds only of their own or their family’s or dependant’s educational needs or old age, have ceased to travel temporarily or permanently;
    2. members of an organised group of travelling show people or circus people (whether or not travelling together as such);
  2. any other people with a cultural tradition of nomadism or of living in a mobile home;
- “mobile home” (“cartref symudol”) means any structure designed or adapted for human habitation that is capable of being moved from one place to another (whether by being towed, or by being transported on a motor vehicle or trailer) and any motor vehicle designed or adapted for human habitation, but does not include—
  1. a tent;
  2. railway rolling stock that is for the time being on rails forming part of a railway system;
  3. an aeroplane;
  4. a vessel.
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The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend this section to—
a
provide that a type of accommodation, or accommodation of a particular description (including accommodation provided at premises of a description specified in the regulations), is or is not visitor accommodation;
b
vary the description of a type of accommodation.
S. 2 in force at 19.9.2025, see s. 67(1)