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

53 Welsh Ministers’ power to impose advertising and billing etc. requirements

(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations impose requirements on visitor accommodation providers that provide or offer to provide visitor accommodation at premises in an area where a principal council has introduced or decided to introduce the levy, relating to—

(a) the inclusion of information about the amount of levy payable on an overnight stay in visitor accommodation in an invoice, receipt or other document provided in connection with that stay;

(b) when and how information relating to the existence, nature, and amount of the levy is to be provided.

(2) Regulations under subsection (1)(b) may (among other things) require that—

(a) an indication (wherever, whenever or however given) of the amount payable for an overnight stay in visitor accommodation includes information about the amount of levy payable in respect of the stay;

(b) promotional and marketing material and other information made available in relation to visitor accommodation includes information about the amount of levy payable in respect of overnight stays in the accommodation;

(c) information about the amount of levy payable in respect of overnight stays in visitor accommodation be displayed in visitor accommodation.

(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may—

(a) confer a power to impose a civil sanction on a person that has not complied with a requirement imposed by the regulations, whether or not the person imposing the civil sanction is a regulator for the purposes of Part 3 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (c. 13), and

(b) make provision for appeals against civil sanctions imposed by virtue of paragraph (a).

(4) In subsection (3) “civil sanction” means a sanction of a kind for which provision may be made under Part 3 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (fixed monetary penalties, discretionary requirements, stop notices and enforcement undertakings).

(5) For the purposes of this section, a principal council has decided to introduce the levy if it has published a notice under section 48 stating that it is going to introduce the levy.