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Development of Tourism and Regulation of Visitor Accommodation (Wales) Act 2026
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(1)The Welsh Ministers may issue a notice (an “information notice”) to a person mentioned in subsection (2), requiring that person to provide the Welsh Ministers with any information or document—
(a)that is of a description specified in the notice, and
(b)that the Welsh Ministers consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of exercising their functions under or by virtue of Parts 3 to 5 of this Act.
(2)The persons to which the Welsh Ministers may issue an information notice are—
(a)a person that has been granted a visitor accommodation licence;
(b)a person the Welsh Ministers consider may be providing or offering to provide, or may have provided or offered to provide regulated visitor accommodation;
(c)a person that assists with or facilitates (or has assisted with or facilitated) the provision of regulated visitor accommodation by a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).
(3)A person issued an information notice must, if the person has access to the information or document in question, provide the information or document—
(a)in the required form, and
(b)on or before—
(i)the date specified in the notice, or
(ii)such other date as may be agreed by the person and the Welsh Ministers.
(4)An information notice does not require a person to provide the Welsh Ministers with information or a document if disclosure of that information or document is prohibited by any enactment or other rule of law.
(5)Information given by a person in response to an information notice may not be used in criminal proceedings against that person, but this does not apply—
(a)if the proceedings are for an offence under section 54 (providing false or misleading information);
(b)if the proceedings are for an offence of perverting the course of justice;
(c)if, in the proceedings, evidence relating to the information is adduced by or on behalf of the person;
(d)if, in the proceedings, a question relating to the information is asked by or on behalf of the person.
(6)An information notice must include information about the consequences under section 53 of failing to comply with the notice.
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I1S. 52 in force at 4.3.2030, see s. 61(2)(b)
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