Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

TRAVEL AGENTS REGULATIONS 1986 - REG 8

8 .         Prescribed qualifications in sections 12(2)(e) and 29

        (1a)         This regulation does not have effect after 31 December 2005.

        (1)         For the purposes of these regulations a person carrying on a business described in column 2 of the Table to this regulation carries on a business as a travel agent of a category described in column 1 of that Table.

        (2)         The qualifications prescribed for — 

            (a)         the purposes of section 29(1) or (2); and

            (b)         an individual referred to in section 12(2)(e) who specifies in his application that he proposes to be personally present and in charge of the day to day conduct of business at a place specified by him in that application,

                are the qualifications described in column 3 of the Table to this regulation opposite the category of business carried on, or proposed to be carried on, at the relevant place of business.

        (3)         A person who is entitled to carry on, or to conduct under section 29 — 

            (a)         Category 1 business may do so in relation to Category 2, 3 and 4 business;

            (b)         Category 2 business may do so in relation to Category 3 and 4 business; and

            (c)         Category 3 business may do so in relation to Category 4 business.

        (4)         For the purposes of this regulation — 

        selling tickets means — 

            (a)         selling, offering for sale or advertising that the person will sell or offer to sell a ticket entitling another person to travel;

            (b)         arranging, offering to arrange or advertising that the person will arrange or offer to arrange for another person a right of passage.

Table

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Category of business	Description of business that may be carried on	Qualifications
Category 1 business	selling tickets entitling persons to travel by air to or from places which are outside Australia.	(a)         at least 5 years experience, in the 10 years preceding the application or employment, in selling tickets entitling persons to travel by air to or from places which are outside Australia; or
		(b)         at least 2 years’ experience in selling such tickets and the successful completion of —
		(i)         a course referred to in Schedule 1A;
		(ii)         a course, or courses, recognised by the Australian Tourism Training Review Panel, or any similar national body that succeeds that Panel, at the time of completion of the course or courses, as being at least equivalent to any of the courses referred to in Schedule 1A; or
		(iii)         a course, or courses, approved from time to time by the Minister as being at least equivalent to any of the courses referred to in Schedule 1A.
Category 2 business	selling tickets entitling persons to travel otherwise than by air to or from places which are outside Australia.	at least 2 years’ experience in selling tickets entitling persons to travel to or from places which are outside Australia.
Category 3 business	selling tickets entitling persons to travel by air between places within Australia.	at least 1 year’s experience in selling tickets entitling persons to travel to or from places which are outside Australia or tickets for travel by air between places within Australia.
Category 4 business	any business as a travel agent other than Category 1, 2 or 3 business.	no qualifications.

        [Regulation 8 inserted in Gazette 27 Mar 1987 p. 1018‑19; amended in Gazette 14 Oct 1988 p. 4203; 6 Sep 1996 p. 4421; 31 Dec 2004 p. 7136.]