Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
Competition Act, 1998 (Act No. 89 of 1998)RegulationsCOVID-19 Block Exemption for the Hotel Industry, 20202. Purpose |
The purpose of these Regulations is to exempt a category of agreements or practices in the hotel industry from the application of sections 4 and 5 of the Act in response to the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic as a national disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, solely with the purpose of:
| 2.1 | promoting concerted conduct to prevent an escalation of the national disaster and to alleviate, contain and minimise the effects of the national disaster; and |
| 2.2. | enabling the hotel industry to collectively engage with the Department of Health and the Department of Tourism in respect of identifying and providing appropriate facilities for persons placed under quarantine, as determined by the Department of Health. |
