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

3 Visitor accommodation provider

(1) This section applies for the purposes of this Act.

(2) A person is a visitor accommodation provider (“VAP”) if that person—

(a) in the course of trade or business,

(b) provides, or offers to provide, visitor accommodation at premises in Wales, and

(c) is an occupier of the premises at which the visitor accommodation is provided.

(3) A person provides visitor accommodation if that person enters into a contract under which, or in consequence of which, one or more people are entitled to reside for one or more nights in or at the accommodation.

(4) In subsection (3), “contract” does not include a contract of service, contract of apprenticeship, or contract for services under which a person entitled to reside in or at the visitor accommodation provides services to the VAP.‍

(5) In this Act—

(a) “offers to provide”, in relation to visitor accommodation, includes advertising or otherwise marketing the accommodation, or otherwise making any person aware that the accommodation is available for stays;

(b) references to a “visitor accommodation provider” (or a “VAP”) include, unless the context requires otherwise, a person registered under Part 2 of this Act, regardless of whether that person falls within subsection (2) at any given time.