South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

TRAVEL AGENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 7

7—Travel agents to be licensed

        (1)         A person must not—

            (a)         carry on business as a travel agent except as authorised by a licence under this Act; or

            (b)         advertise or otherwise hold himself or herself out as being entitled to carry on business as a travel agent unless authorised to carry on business as such an agent by a licence under this Act.

Maximum penalty: $50 000.

        (2)         If a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (1) , the court by which the conviction is recorded must order the person to pay to the Crown an amount estimated by the court to be the amount of the profit that has accrued to the convicted person or any other person with whom the convicted person has a business or personal association in consequence of the commission of the offence.

        (3)         An amount recovered by the Crown under an order must be paid into the compensation fund.

        (4)         A person required by this Act to be licensed as a travel agent is not entitled to any fee, other consideration or compensation under or in relation to a contract with another on whose behalf the person provided services as a travel agent unless—

            (a)         the person was authorised to provide the services under a licence; or

            (b)         a court hearing proceedings for recovery of the fee, other consideration or compensation is satisfied that the person's failure to be so authorised resulted from inadvertence only.