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Building materials and hotel equipment not to be used for any purpose other than that for 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. FIRST SCHEDULE Articles of Hotel Equipment SECOND SCHEDULE Grand Cayman - Districts Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision) HOTELS AID LAW (1995 Revision) ENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_1\", \"num\": \"1.\", \"text\": \"Short title 1. This Law may be cited as the Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision).\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_2\", \"num\": \"2.\", \"text\": \"Definitions 2. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires \u2014 \u201carticles of hotel equipment\u201d mean any of the articles specified in the First Schedule; \u201cbuilding materials\u201d mean materials of every description for use in connection with the construction of a hotel and all structures appurtenant thereto; \u201cconstruct\u201d includes erect or extend but does not include repair or maintain; \u201cextension to a hotel\u201d means any enlargement of the accommodation of a hotel whether by means of a newly-erected building or by the structural alteration of the existing building; \u201cGovernor\u201d means the Governor in Council; \u201chotel\u201d means any building or group of buildings within the same precinct containing or intended to contain when completed an aggregate number of not less than ten bedrooms and facilities for meals for the accommodation of transient guests including guests for reward together with the precinct thereof Hotels Aid Law and all other buildings and structures within such precinct not being a strata lot or an apartment house; \u201chotel purposes\u201d mean \u2014 (a) the provision of accommodation for guests for reward; (b) the provision of supplies, services, amenities and facilities for cultural and recreational pursuits, primarily for consumption by, or the enjoyment or use of, guests accommodated for reward at the hotel in relation to which the expression is used; or (c) any purpose directly ancillary to the purposes specified in paragraphs (a) and (b); \u201clicence\u201d means a licence granted under section 4; \u201clicensee\u201d means the holder of a licence; \u201cprecinct\u201d means the area of land within which the buildings and structures comprised in a hotel or an extension to a hotel are constructed or intended to be constructed, designated on the plan prescribed; and \u201cproprietor\u201d means the person for the time being entitled to the profits of a hotel.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_3\", \"num\": \"3.\", \"text\": \"Licensing Board 3. (1) There is hereby established a Licensing Board consisting of a Member of Executive Council appointed by the Governor as Chairman, the Collector of Customs as Secretary and four other members appointed by the Governor. (2) The Chairman or, in his absence, a member of the Board voted by other members present shall preside at Board meetings. (3) A quorum shall consist of three members. (4) Each member, other than the Chairman or other person presiding at a meeting, shall have one vote and the majority of votes of members present and voting shall be the decision of the Licensing Board. In the event of a tie the person presiding shall have a casting vote. (5) Each member of the Licensing Board shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_4\", \"num\": \"4.\", \"text\": \"Grant of import licences 4. (1) Subject to section 5, the Licensing Board may grant to every person who desires \u2014 (a) to construct a hotel or an extension to a hotel, a licence to import into the Islands such building materials for use in the construction of such hotel or extension as may be specified in the licence; or Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision) (b) to equip a newly erected hotel or extension to a hotel, a licence to import into the Islands such articles of hotel equipment as may be specified in the licence. (2) For the purposes of this section a hotel shall be deemed to be newly erected, notwithstanding that one or more buildings or structures forming a part of a hotel are not newly erected, provided the hotel contains an aggregate number of at least ten bedrooms and facilities for meals for the accommodation of guests including tourists for reward.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_5\", \"num\": \"5.\", \"text\": \"Procedure on application for grant of licence 5. (1) Every application for the grant of a licence shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Licensing Board and shall be in such form and contain such information and be accompanied by such documents as may be prescribed. (2) Every applicant shall state in which District, as specified in the Second Schedule, the hotel in question will be situated.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_6\", \"num\": \"6.\", \"text\": \"Entry of building materials and equipment 6. (1) Notwithstanding any other law, every licensee shall be entitled, upon production of his licence to the proper customs officer, to import into the Islands in accordance with the terms thereof such building materials or articles of hotel equipment as may be specified therein on payment of such reduced customs duties as shall be applicable to the particular importation according to this Law. (2) Notwithstanding any other law, there shall be raised, levied, collected and paid, for the use of the Government of the Cayman Islands, on the importation of building materials and articles of hotel equipment in accordance with this Law, in addition to package tax at the prescribed rate, such percentage only of the value of such materials and equipment ascertained in accordance with the Customs Law, as is prescribed in the Second Schedule for the part of the Islands in which the hotel is located.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_7\", \"num\": \"7.\", \"text\": \"Building materials and hotel equipment not to be used for any purpose other than that for which imported 7. (1) Subject to section 8, where any building materials or articles of hotel equipment have been imported into the Islands under a licence, such building materials or articles of hotel equipment shall not be sold, exchanged, given away, exported from the Islands or applied for any purpose other than use in connection with the construction or equipment of the relevant hotel. (2) If any building within the precinct of a hotel is used otherwise than for hotel purposes, without the prior approval of the Governor, at any time within ten years from the grant of a licence under section 4, to import building materials or three years in the case of articles of hotel equipment for use in the Hotels Aid Law construction or equipment of any building within the precinct of that hotel, the person who is the proprietor of the hotel shall forthwith pay to the Governor the full amount of all the customs duties which, but for this Law, would have been payable in respect of that hotel. (3) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months; and any sum which may be payable to the Governor under subsection (2) may be recovered by the Governor by suit in the Grand Court. (4) Any demise or device entered into or made after 1st March, 1979, whereby the availability of the whole or any part of a hotel for the accommodation of transient guests is in any way reduced or prejudiced operates to deprive such hotel of being the subject of any benefit under this Law and renders the proprietor thereof liable to pay in full, with interest at ten per centum per annum any customs duty which, but for the operation of this Law, would have been payable in respect thereof.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_8\", \"num\": \"8.\", \"text\": \"Collector of Customs may permit disposal of materials, etc. 8. (1) Where the Collector of Customs is satisfied that any building materials or articles of hotel equipment which have been imported into the Islands under a licence are no longer required for the purposes of the hotel, in respect of which the import licence was granted, he may grant a permit to the licensee to dispose of such building materials or articles of hotel equipment in such manner as he thinks fit. (2) No permit shall be granted under subsection (1) until the licensee has paid to the Collector of Customs or has given security to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs that he will so pay all sums which would have been payable by way of customs duty, but for this Law, upon the importation of such building materials or articles of hotel equipment.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_9\", \"num\": \"9.\", \"text\": \"Application of waiver 9. For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that waiver of customs duty under this Law is only available in respect of original buildings and not replacement. The installation of intercommunication systems for the first time is to be treated as original matter for the purposes of this Law.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_10\", \"num\": \"10.\", \"text\": \"Inventory of hotel equipment to be kept 10. Where any articles of hotel equipment are imported under a licence, the proprietor, for the time being, of the hotel to which the licence relates, shall keep the relevant customs entry forms as prima facie evidence of relief from customs duty and if duty is subsequently charged, the fact is to be entered thereon by customs. Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_11\", \"num\": \"11.\", \"text\": \"Power to revoke licenses 11. Where the Governor is satisfied that any licensee has \u2014 (a) obtained the grant of any licence by any false statement; (b) abused or misused any import licence; or (c) broken or failed to comply with any conditions of such licence, he may either suspend the operation of such licence for such time and subject to such conditions as he may think fit or may revoke such licence.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_12\", \"num\": \"12.\", \"text\": \"Regulations 12. (1) The Governor may, on the recommendations of the Licensing Board, make regulations for carrying this Law into effect. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1), regulations may be made \u2014 (a) prescribing the form of, the information to be contained in and the documents to accompany, any application for a licence under section 4; (b) prescribing the form in which and the terms subject to which a licence may be granted under section 4; (c) prescribing the type of mark to be affixed to articles and the manner in which such mark shall be affixed; and (d) prescribing the form of any inventories kept under this Law.\", \"element\": \"section\", \"heading\": null}, {\"eId\": \"sec_13\", \"num\": \"13.\", \"text\": \"Power to vary First Schedule 13. The Governor may, by order, vary the First Schedule. 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West Bay Area-Grand Cayman (The description of this is based on D.C.S. Map No. 328 (Series E821). Method of giving grid references are explained on the map). All that area enclosed by the following boundaries- Commencing at the junction of the North West Point Road with the West Bay- George Town Road (MR 575417); thence due east to the North Sound (MR 602417) thence south-easterly following the coast line, except that creeks are included in the area, to Welch Point (MR 619388); thence southerly following the coast line to a point north of the Sound Road (MR 623346), thence due West passing through the junction of the West Bay-George Town Road with School Road to the sea (MR 595346), thence northerly and north-westerly following the coast line to a point south of the junction of the North West Point Road with the West Bay-George Town Road (MR 575416) thence due north to the starting point. The area is defined on boundary plan No. 1 held at the office of the Chief Surveyor. 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May, 1989.\n\nConsolidate and revised this 28th day of March, 1995.\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 3\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nHOTELS AID LAW\n(1995 Revision)\nArrangement of Sections\nSection\nPage\n1.\nShort title ...................................................................................................................................5\n2.\nDefinitions ..................................................................................................................................5\n3.\nLicensing Board .........................................................................................................................6\n4.\nGrant of import licences .............................................................................................................6\n5.\nProcedure on application for grant of licence .............................................................................7\n6.\nEntry of building materials and equipment .................................................................................7\n7.\nBuilding materials and hotel equipment not to be used for any purpose other than that for\nwhich imported ..........................................................................................................................7\n8.\nCollector of Customs may permit disposal of materials, etc........................................................8\n9.\nApplication of waiver ..................................................................................................................8\n10.\nInventory of hotel equipment to be kept .....................................................................................8\n11.\nPower to revoke licenses ...........................................................................................................9\n12.\nRegulations ...............................................................................................................................9\n13.\nPower to vary First Schedule .....................................................................................................9\nFIRST SCHEDULE\n11\nArticles of Hotel Equipment\n11\nSECOND SCHEDULE\n12\nGrand Cayman - Districts\n12\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nSection 1\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 5\n\nCAYMAN ISLANDS\n\nHOTELS AID LAW\n(1995 Revision)\nENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands.\n1.\nShort title\n1.\nThis Law may be cited as the Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision).\n2.\nDefinitions\n2.\nIn this Law, unless the context otherwise requires \u2014\n\u201carticles of hotel equipment\u201d mean any of the articles specified in the First\nSchedule;\n\u201cbuilding materials\u201d mean materials of every description for use in\nconnection with the construction of a hotel and all structures appurtenant\nthereto;\n\u201cconstruct\u201d includes erect or extend but does not include repair or maintain;\n\u201cextension to a hotel\u201d means any enlargement of the accommodation of a\nhotel whether by means of a newly-erected building or by the structural\nalteration of the existing building;\n\u201cGovernor\u201d means the Governor in Council;\n\u201chotel\u201d means any building or group of buildings within the same precinct\ncontaining or intended to contain when completed an aggregate number of not\nless than ten bedrooms and facilities for meals for the accommodation of\ntransient guests including guests for reward together with the precinct thereof\n\nSection 3\nHotels Aid Law\n\nPage 6\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nc\n\nand all other buildings and structures within such precinct not being a strata lot\nor an apartment house;\n\u201chotel purposes\u201d mean \u2014\n(a)\nthe provision of accommodation for guests for reward;\n(b) the provision of supplies, services, amenities and facilities for cultural\nand recreational pursuits, primarily for consumption by, or the enjoyment\nor use of, guests accommodated for reward at the hotel in relation to\nwhich the expression is used; or\n(c)\nany purpose directly ancillary to the purposes specified in paragraphs (a)\nand (b);\n\u201clicence\u201d means a licence granted under section 4;\n\u201clicensee\u201d means the holder of a licence;\n\u201cprecinct\u201d means the area of land within which the buildings and structures\ncomprised in a hotel or an extension to a hotel are constructed or intended to\nbe constructed, designated on the plan prescribed; and\n\u201cproprietor\u201d means the person for the time being entitled to the profits of a\nhotel.\n3.\nLicensing Board\n3.\n(1) There is hereby established a Licensing Board consisting of a Member of\nExecutive Council appointed by the Governor as Chairman, the Collector of\nCustoms as Secretary and four other members appointed by the Governor.\n(2) The Chairman or, in his absence, a member of the Board voted by other\nmembers present shall preside at Board meetings.\n(3) A quorum shall consist of three members.\n(4) Each member, other than the Chairman or other person presiding at a meeting,\nshall have one vote and the majority of votes of members present and voting\nshall be the decision of the Licensing Board. In the event of a tie the person\npresiding shall have a casting vote.\n(5) Each member of the Licensing Board shall hold office at the pleasure of the\nGovernor.\n4.\nGrant of import licences\n4.\n(1) Subject to section 5, the Licensing Board may grant to every person who\ndesires \u2014\n(a)\nto construct a hotel or an extension to a hotel, a licence to import into the\nIslands such building materials for use in the construction of such hotel\nor extension as may be specified in the licence; or\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nSection 5\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 7\n\n(b) to equip a newly erected hotel or extension to a hotel, a licence to import\ninto the Islands such articles of hotel equipment as may be specified in\nthe licence.\n(2) For the purposes of this section a hotel shall be deemed to be newly erected,\nnotwithstanding that one or more buildings or structures forming a part of a\nhotel are not newly erected, provided the hotel contains an aggregate number\nof at least ten bedrooms and facilities for meals for the accommodation of\nguests including tourists for reward.\n5.\nProcedure on application for grant of licence\n5.\n(1) Every application for the grant of a licence shall be submitted to the Secretary\nof the Licensing Board and shall be in such form and contain such information\nand be accompanied by such documents as may be prescribed.\n(2) Every applicant shall state in which District, as specified in the Second\nSchedule, the hotel in question will be situated.\n6.\nEntry of building materials and equipment\n6.\n(1) Notwithstanding any other law, every licensee shall be entitled, upon\nproduction of his licence to the proper customs officer, to import into the\nIslands in accordance with the terms thereof such building materials or articles\nof hotel equipment as may be specified therein on payment of such reduced\ncustoms duties as shall be applicable to the particular importation according to\nthis Law.\n(2) Notwithstanding any other law, there shall be raised, levied, collected and\npaid, for the use of the Government of the Cayman Islands, on the importation\nof building materials and articles of hotel equipment in accordance with this\nLaw, in addition to package tax at the prescribed rate, such percentage only of\nthe value of such materials and equipment ascertained in accordance with the\nCustoms Law, as is prescribed in the Second Schedule for the part of the\nIslands in which the hotel is located.\n7.\nBuilding materials and hotel equipment not to be used for any purpose\nother than that for which imported\n7.\n(1) Subject to section 8, where any building materials or articles of hotel\nequipment have been imported into the Islands under a licence, such building\nmaterials or articles of hotel equipment shall not be sold, exchanged, given\naway, exported from the Islands or applied for any purpose other than use in\nconnection with the construction or equipment of the relevant hotel.\n(2) If any building within the precinct of a hotel is used otherwise than for hotel\npurposes, without the prior approval of the Governor, at any time within ten\nyears from the grant of a licence under section 4, to import building materials\nor three years in the case of articles of hotel equipment for use in the\n\nSection 8\nHotels Aid Law\n\nPage 8\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nc\n\nconstruction or equipment of any building within the precinct of that hotel, the\nperson who is the proprietor of the hotel shall forthwith pay to the Governor\nthe full amount of all the customs duties which, but for this Law, would have\nbeen payable in respect of that hotel.\n(3) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable\non summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment\nfor twelve months; and any sum which may be payable to the Governor under\nsubsection (2) may be recovered by the Governor by suit in the Grand Court.\n(4) Any demise or device entered into or made after 1st March, 1979, whereby the\navailability of the whole or any part of a hotel for the accommodation of\ntransient guests is in any way reduced or prejudiced operates to deprive such\nhotel of being the subject of any benefit under this Law and renders the\nproprietor thereof liable to pay in full, with interest at ten per centum per\nannum any customs duty which, but for the operation of this Law, would have\nbeen payable in respect thereof.\n8.\nCollector of Customs may permit disposal of materials, etc.\n8.\n(1) Where the Collector of Customs is satisfied that any building materials or\narticles of hotel equipment which have been imported into the Islands under a\nlicence are no longer required for the purposes of the hotel, in respect of which\nthe import licence was granted, he may grant a permit to the licensee to\ndispose of such building materials or articles of hotel equipment in such\nmanner as he thinks fit.\n(2) No permit shall be granted under subsection (1) until the licensee has paid to\nthe Collector of Customs or has given security to the satisfaction of the\nCollector of Customs that he will so pay all sums which would have been\npayable by way of customs duty, but for this Law, upon the importation of\nsuch building materials or articles of hotel equipment.\n9.\nApplication of waiver\n9.\nFor the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that waiver of customs duty under\nthis Law is only available in respect of original buildings and not replacement. The\ninstallation of intercommunication systems for the first time is to be treated as\noriginal matter for the purposes of this Law.\n10.\nInventory of hotel equipment to be kept\n10. Where any articles of hotel equipment are imported under a licence, the proprietor,\nfor the time being, of the hotel to which the licence relates, shall keep the relevant\ncustoms entry forms as prima facie evidence of relief from customs duty and if duty\nis subsequently charged, the fact is to be entered thereon by customs.\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nSection 11\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 9\n\n11.\nPower to revoke licenses\n11. Where the Governor is satisfied that any licensee has \u2014\n(a)\nobtained the grant of any licence by any false statement;\n(b) abused or misused any import licence; or\n(c)\nbroken or failed to comply with any conditions of such licence,\nhe may either suspend the operation of such licence for such time and subject\nto such conditions as he may think fit or may revoke such licence.\n12.\nRegulations\n12. (1) The Governor may, on the recommendations of the Licensing Board, make\nregulations for carrying this Law into effect.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1),\nregulations may be made \u2014\n(a)\nprescribing the form of, the information to be contained in and the\ndocuments to accompany, any application for a licence under section 4;\n(b) prescribing the form in which and the terms subject to which a licence\nmay be granted under section 4;\n(c)\nprescribing the type of mark to be affixed to articles and the manner in\nwhich such mark shall be affixed; and\n(d) prescribing the form of any inventories kept under this Law.\n13.\nPower to vary First Schedule\n13. The Governor may, by order, vary the First Schedule.\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nFIRST SCHEDULE\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 11\n\n FIRST SCHEDULE\n(Sections 1 and 13)\nArticles of Hotel Equipment\nAir conditioning equipment and\nappliances\nFire fighting equipment\nFloor coverings\nBathroom and shower fixtures\nGlass tableware\nBeds\nIceboxes\nBed linen\nIntercommunication systems\nBedside tables or cabinets\nKitchen and pantry fixtures and utensils\nBedspreads\nLaundry fixtures and equipment\nBell equipment and appliances\nLawn furniture and umbrellas\nBlankets\nMattresses\nBlinds\nMirrors\nBolsters\nOrgans\nBookcases\nPianos\nCash Registers\nPillows\nChairs\nPlated tableware\nChests of drawers\nPumping equipment\nChildren\u2019s playground fixtures\nRefrigerating equipment\nCounters\nRestroom fixtures\nCrockery\nSafes\nCupboards\nSideboards\nCurtains\nSilver tableware\nCutlery\nSofas\nDesks\nStoves\nDisplay cabinets\nSwimming pool fixtures and cleaning\nDressers\nequipment\nElectric fans\nTables\nElectrical equipment for-\nTable linen\n   cooking and mixing\nTanks and boilers\n    heating\nTelephone equipment\n    ironing\nToilet and washing fixtures\n    laundry\nTowels\n    lighting\nVacuum jugs, flasks and jars\nElectricity distribution equipment\nElectricity generating equipment\nWardrobes\nWater desalination and purification\nElevators and connected equipment\nFiling cabinets\nequipment\nWater softeners\n\nWindow shades\n\nSECOND SCHEDULE\nHotels Aid Law\n\nPage 12\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nc\n\nSECOND SCHEDULE\nSection 5(1) and 6(2)\nGrand Cayman - Districts\n\n1.\nWest Bay Area-Grand Cayman\n\n(The description of this is based on D.C.S. Map No. 328 (Series E821). Method of giving\ngrid references are explained on the map).\n\nAll that area enclosed by the following boundaries-\n\nCommencing at the junction of the North West Point Road with the West Bay- George\nTown Road (MR 575417); thence due east to the North Sound (MR 602417) thence\nsouth-easterly following the coast line, except that creeks are included in the area, to\nWelch Point (MR 619388); thence southerly following the coast line to a point north of\nthe Sound Road (MR 623346), thence due West passing through the junction of the West\nBay-George Town Road with School Road to the sea (MR 595346), thence northerly and\nnorth-westerly following the coast line to a point south of the junction of the North West\nPoint Road with the West Bay-George Town Road (MR 575416) thence due north to the\nstarting point.\n\nThe area is defined on boundary plan No. 1 held at the office of the Chief Surveyor.\n\nHotels of not more than 150 bedrooms\n\nFull duty\nHotels exceeding 150 bedrooms\n\nFull duty\n\n2.\nAll other parts of the Islands\n\n2 1\/2%.\n\nHotels Aid Law (1995 Revision)\nSECOND SCHEDULE\n\nc\nRevised as at 28th day of March, 1995\nPage 13\n\nPublication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Governor in Council\nthis 28th day of March, 1995.\nMona N. 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