Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Travel Agents Act 1986 - SECT 15

Register to be kept

15. Register to be kept



(1) The Registrar must keep a register of licensed travel agents open for
public inspection in the form determined by the Registrar.





(2) The purposes of the register are-

   (a)  to enable members of the public to have access to information about
        licensees;

   (b)  to record the names of people disqualified under section 21(2) or
        refused a licence under section 10(2)(e) or (f) or section 10(4)(g) or
        (h).

(2A) The register must include the following details in relation to each
licensed travel agent-

   (a)  licence number issued by the Authority;

   (b)  name of licensee;

   (c)  date licence granted;

   (d)  date licence surrendered, cancelled or suspended;

   (e)  licence conditions;

   (f)  details of any Tribunal or court orders concerning the licensee
        affecting the licence and of which the Registrar has notice;

   (g)  business names under which a licensee is authorised to carry on travel
        agency business, including the date of commencement and cessation of
        business in that name;

   (h)  business addresses and telephone numbers of any premises from which
        the travel agency business is conducted and, in each place of
        business, the manager of that place, including the date of
        commencement and cessation of business at that place and the date of
        the manager's commencement and cessation of appointment;

        (i)    if the licensee is a corporation, the names of the directors
               and the date of appointment and cessation of appointment of
               each director;

   (j)  if the licensee carries on business in a partnership, the names of the
        partners;

   (k)  Australian Business Number (if any) issued under the
        A New Tax System (Australian Business Number) Act 1999 of the
        Commonwealth;

   (l)  Internet site address maintained by the licensee for the purposes of a
        travel agent's business (if any);

   (m)  any other information prescribed by the regulations as forming part of
        the register.

(2B) Subject to the Public Records Act 1973, the Registrar may, if in his or
her opinion it is no longer necessary or desirable to retain it, remove any
information from the register 12 years after the information was added to the
register.





(3) A person, on application in accordance with the regulations (if any) and
on payment of the prescribed fee (if any)-

   (a)  may inspect the Register of Travel Agents; and

   (b)  may make a copy of, or take extracts from, the register.

(4) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar certifying as to
any matter relating to the contents of the Register of Travel Agents is
evidence of that matter.

(5) The Registrar may correct an error or omission in the Register by-

   (a)  inserting an entry or

   (b)  amending an entry; or

   (c)  omitting an entry-

if he or she decides that the correction is necessary.