Hotels Aid Regulations

PUBLISHING DETAILS Revised under the authority of the Law Revision Law (19 of 1975). The Hotels Aid Regulations, 1976 made the 8th July, 1976. Consolidated with the - Hotels Aid (Amendment) Regulations, 1989 made the 2nd May, 1989. Consolidated and revised this 26th day of March, 1996.

Arrangement of Regulations

Regulation Form of Application Inventory Markings

Regulation 1

Citation These Regulations may be cited as the Hotels Aid Regulations (1996 Revision). Particulars in forms, etc. The particulars contained in every form or document herein prescribed shall be printed, typed or written legibly in ink. Licence applications Each application for a licence to construct or to equip a hotel shall be in Form 1 in the First Schedule and accompanied by — (a) if the applicant is a company, its certificate of incorporation or an authenticated copy thereof; (b) a site plan drawn to a scale of not less than one inch to one hundred feet; plans and drawings of the proposed hotel on a scale not smaller than one eighth of an inch to one foot, together with a specification indicating the dimensions thereof, the materials with which it is proposed to construct it and the estimated quantities of such of the materials as will require to be imported; (d) a full descriptive list of the articles of hotel equipment desired to be imported for the purpose of equipping the hotel and the market value thereof at the port of shipment;

Regulation 4

(e) a statement of the period within which the hotel is to be equipped, constructed and opened for business and such other particulars and information as the Licensing Board may, from time to time, require; (f) the final planning approval granted by the Central Planning Authority; and (g) such other documents as may be prescribed. Licences Licences shall be in the Form 2 in the First Schedule. Inventories Inventories required to be kept by section 10 shall be in Form 3 in the First Marking of hotel equipment Each licensee, shall, in the manner provided in the Second Schedule, within one month of the date of their importation or purchase, as the case may be, legibly and permanently mark, stamp or engrave every article of hotel equipment imported under the relevant licence. Any licensee who fails so to do is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months. Release from Customs No articles or materials, the subject of an application under this Law, shall be released from Customs charge until the production of the licence in respect thereof.

Form 1 Form of Application (Regulation 3) Pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of the Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision), I apply to the Licencing Board for a licence to import into the Islands the building materials and articles of hotel equipment specified in the enclosed documents and I submit the following particulars: Surname of applicant:_______________________________________________ Other names:______________________________________________________ Address:__________________________________________________________ Situation of hotel with reference to the Second to the Law:_____________________________________________________________ Where application is in respect of articles of equipment, the purpose for which they are to be imported must be stated:__________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Dated this__________day of____________________________________, 199_. _______________________ Signature of applicant

Form 2 Form of Licence (Regulation 3(d)) An application having been made in that behalf to the Licensing Board under the Hotels Aid Law (1995 Revision) by____________________, a hotel proprietor (hereinafter called “the licensee”) a licence is hereby granted to him in respect of the hotel at _______________________________________________________. And the licensee may import between the ___________and_____________ and land at any port in the Islands for the construction and equipment of that hotel equipment described in the Schedule and is entitled on production of this licence to a Customs officer to the benefit of the reduced rate of duties prescribed by section 6 of the Law. Granted at Grand Cayman this____________ day of _________________, 199_. Chairman of the Licensing Board

Form 3 Inventory (Regulation 3(e)) Name of hotel:_____________________________________________________ Situation:_________________________________________________________ District:__________________________________________________________ Name of proprietor:_________________________________________________ Articles Date of Importation:________________________________________________ Number _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________

Description _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ I certify that the foregoing is a true inventory of the articles imported for use in the above hotel. _____________________ Signature

Inventory Markings Every article must be so marked as to be easily identified and the mark shall consist of the following letters arranged in the following order- (H A L) Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Governor in Council this 26th day of March, 1996. Mona N. Banks-Jackson Clerk of the Executive Council