New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsI, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 5 of the Travel Agents Act 1986, make the following Order.
Dated, this 6th day of April 2005.
By Her Excellency’s Command,
Minister for Fair Trading
The objects of this Order are as follows:
(a) to exempt a person from the requirement to be licensed under the Travel Agents Act 1986 ( "the Act") if the gross turnover of the person’s business as a travel agent (excluding the value of any business in respect of a conveyance or accommodation owned by the travel agent) does not exceed $50,000 for the current financial year (which is an increase from the current threshold of $30,000, which applies to the preceding calendar year),
(b) to provide that a licensee who carries on business in partnership with any number of other licensees is exempt from section 33 of the Act if at each place that the licensee carries on business one or more of the other licensees displays a notice in accordance with that section,
(c) to provide that a licensee who carries on business in partnership with any number of other licensees is exempt from the requirement under section 34 of the Act to specify in an advertisement the number of the licensee’s licence if in that advertisement one or more of the other licensees specifies the number of that other licensee’s licence,
(d) to provide that if a licensee’s business only involves domestic travel services, the person in charge at the licensee’s place of business is not required to be qualified in accordance with section 36 of the Act,
(e) to exempt licensed interstate travel agents from the need to be licensed in New South Wales, but only to the extent that they advertise or provide information in New South Wales and not if they are physically present in New South Wales,
(f) to repeal existing Orders under section 5 of the Act.This Order is made under section 5 of the Travel Agents Act 1986.
The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:
| Am | amended | No | number | Schs | Schedules |
| Cl | clause | p | page | Sec | section |
| Cll | clauses | pp | pages | Secs | sections |
| Div | Division | Reg | Regulation | Subdiv | Subdivision |
| Divs | Divisions | Regs | Regulations | Subdivs | Subdivisions |
| GG | Government Gazette | Rep | repealed | Subst | substituted |
| Ins | inserted | Sch | Schedule |