PART 2REGISTER OF VISITOR ACCOMMODATION PROVIDERS

The register

4Register of visitor accommodation providers

(1)

The Welsh Revenue Authority (“WRA”) must establish and maintain a register of visitor accommodation providers (“the register”).

(2)

Schedule 1 makes provision about the information to be contained in a visitor accommodation provider’s entry in the register.

(3)

The register may contain any other information WRA considers appropriate.

(4)

WRA must publish,‍ in such manner as WRA considers appropriate, the information contained in the register by virtue of Schedule 1.

(5)

But WRA must not publish (regardless of whether the information in question is contained in the entry for a visitor accommodation provider that is an individual)—

(a)

the name of an individual, unless—

(i)

the individual consents to the publication, or

(ii)

the individual’s forename and surname are part of the business name of the visitor accommodation provider (“VAP”);

(b)

the address of an individual’s sole or main residence, unless—

(i)

the individual consents to the publication, or

(ii)

the address is of premises at which the VAP provides or offers to provide visitor accommodation.

(6)

WRA may publish, in such manner as WRA considers appropriate, information contained in the register by virtue of subsection (3); but WRA may not publish information under this subsection if WRA is prohibited from publishing that information by any enactment or rule of law.

(7)

In this Part—

(a)

“registered” means registered in the register, and

(b)

a reference to premises at which a person or VAP provides, or offers to provide, visitor accommodation is a reference to premises—

(i)

in Wales,

(ii)

at which the person or VAP, in the course of trade or business, provides or offers to provide visitor accommodation, and

(iii)

occupied by the person or VAP.