CHAPTER
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PROMOTION OF TOURISM |
ARRANGEMENT OF
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Duties and powers of the Minister. |
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CHAPTER 25 |
PROMOTION OF
TOURISM |
An Act to
provide means for increasing and developing facilities for tourism and to
promote measures for attracting tourists to The Bahamas. | 49 of 1963
E.L.A.O., 1974
19 of 1975 |
[Assent 20th
December, 1963]
[Commencement 7th January, 1964] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Promotion of Tourism
Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"advertising"
means advertising in newspapers, magazines or other publications or by
pamphlets or by any other media or method of advertisement as the Minister may
direct; |
"Minister"
means the Minister responsible for the Promotion of Tourism; |
"transportation
company" means any corporation, company or person engaged in shipping, aviation
or other business of transportation. |
3. The Minister, assisted by such staff as he may
consider necessary, shall have the following duties and powers- | Duties and powers of the Minister. |
(a) to make all
such enquiries and to collect such information as may be deemed necessary for
the purpose of promoting and thoroughly advertising The Bahamas as a tourist
resort and for the purpose of materially facilitating and increasing the
tourist traffic to The Bahamas; |
(b) to adopt
all such measures as, in the opinion of the Minister, may be necessary for
promoting and thoroughly advertising The Bahamas as a tourist resort, and for
the purpose of materially facilitating and increasing the tourist traffic to
The Bahamas; |
(c) for all or
any of such purposes to appoint any person or agent as the Minister may deem
necessary and to arrange for the remuneration of the same either by salary,
commission or otherwise as the Minister may think proper; |
(d) to accept
from any hotel, development or transportation company any contribution for all
or any of the purposes of this Act and to administer the same either solely or
by joint arrangement with any such hotel, development or transportation
company; |
(e) to enter
into and make such contract or contracts as the Minister may deem necessary for
all or any of the purposes of this Act; |
(f) for the
special purposes of this Act, to make any contract for the provision of air or
steamship communication between The Bahamas and any other place and to pay for
or contribute towards the same or towards advertising or promoting the same by
way of annual or periodical subsidy, guarantee of debenture interest,
commission on the number of passengers brought to The Bahamas or by any other
method of payment sanctioned by the Minister; |
(g) generally
to take all such measures as the Minister may deem likely to carry out most
effectively the objects of this Act. |
4. In addition to any sum voted to the Minister, the
Minister may utilise for the purposes of this Act any sums received from the
sale of publications or in payment for advertisements inserted in any
advertising pamphlet or other documents issued under this Act, or any other
sums received from any source in carrying out the objects of this Act. | Expenses. |
5. The Minister shall lay upon the table of each House
of Parliament in the month of April or as soon as practicable thereafter in
every year a report describing the operations and measures undertaken by the
Minister during the previous year ending on the thirty-first day of December,
and, showing the money received and expended during such year in carrying out
the objects of this Act. | Annual Report. |
6. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect any
contract that was valid and subsisting immediately prior to the seventh day of
January, 1964 and which had been entered into by the Development Board
(abolished by this Act on the said date) and any such contract shall be deemed
to be a contract entered into by the Minister on behalf of the Government of
The Bahamas. | Contracts. |
7. The Minister may make rules generally for carrying
into effect the objects of this Act. | Rules. |