Acts Online
GT Shield

Tourism Act 1993 (Act No. 72 of 1993)

18. Minister may establish grading and classification scheme in respect of accommodation establishments

 

 

1) The Minister may upon the recommendation of the board, with a view to the maintenance or enhancement of the standards and the quality of facilities and services rendered or made available by persons conducting accommodation establishments, establish a grading and classification scheme in respect of accommodation establishments.

 

2) The Minister may for the purposes of the application of a scheme apply any basis of differentiation which he may deem fit, and may classify accommodation establishments into different classes on the ground of, inter alia, the nature, extent, variety, availability and quality of the facilities and services rendered or made available by such establishments.

 

3) The Minister may, if it is in his view necessary for the proper conduct or continuation of an effective grading and classification scheme, or to keep abreast with developments in the tourism industry, from time to time amend the provisions of such a scheme.

 

4) The acquisition, continuation and termination of membership of a scheme shall be governed by the provisions of the scheme.

 

5) The board shall in respect of any accommodation establishment classified and graded in terms of a scheme referred to in subsection (1) grant authority to the person conducting the establishment to use and display in respect of that establishment the prescribed insignia, which shall include a depiction or depictions of a star or a number of stars which indicate the grading awarded in respect of that establishment in terms of the scheme.

 

6) The board shall keep a record of all persons conducting accommodation establishments and who are members of a grading and classification scheme, and of all establishments graded and classified in terms of such a scheme.