Prospective

PART 3 E+W REGULATION OF VISITOR ACCOMMODATION

CHAPTER 2 E+W LICENSING

Licences: provisional licences‍‍ E+W

28 Provisional licences: further provision E+W

(1) A VAP to which a provisional visitor accommodation licence has been granted under section 27 may (at any time) apply for a visitor accommodation licence under section 18 (a “full licence”).

(2) But where the Welsh Ministers grant a full licence to a VAP in respect of premises under section 20, they must revoke the provisional visitor accommodation licence that the VAP holds in respect of those premises.

(3) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make further provision about provisional licences.

(4) Regulations under subsection (3) may (among other things)—

(a) make provision for a summary offence punishable with a fine in respect of a breach of the condition in section 27(3)(b);

(b) make further or different provision about the application of criminal offences under this Act in relation to provisional visitor accommodation licences, including provision modifying those offences in their application in relation to such licences;

(c) amend—

(i) this Act;

(ii) the Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act 2025 (asc 5).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 28 in force at 5.3.2029, see s. 61(2)(a)