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TRAVEL AGENTS ACT 1988 - SECT 57

57 Regulation-making power

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.

(2) A regulation may be made for or about the following matters--

(a) prescribing a code of practice to be observed by persons who carry on business as travel agents;
(b) providing for differing categories of licence that may be granted in respect of the different types of the business of travel agents specified in the regulations and prescribing the qualification for holders of licences of those differing categories;
(c) prescribing, or providing for the calculation of, fees for the purposes of this Act;
(e) prescribing the records to be kept by licensees and the manner in which the records must be kept;
(f) requiring periodic audits to be made of the accounts required by this Act to be kept and provide for the appointment of auditors;
(g) regulating the form and content of advertisements concerning the services offered by persons carrying on business as travel agents;
(h) providing for the furnishing of returns to enable calculation of contributions to the compensation fund;
(i) prescribing penalties not exceeding 20 penalty units for contravention of, or noncompliance with any regulation.

(3) A regulation made under subsection (1)(a) may refer to, or incorporate, in whole or in part, and with or without modification, a code of practice for the time being, or from time to time, adopted by a body which, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, represents the interests of a substantial number of persons licensed under this Act.

(4) A regulation made under subsection (1)(b) may provide that a prescribed qualification for the holder of a licence may be a qualification specified in the regulation or such other qualification as, in the particular case, the commissioner accepts as qualifying a person to hold a licence.



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