51Persons acting as travel agents—the Act, s 4

51 Persons acting as travel agents—the Act, s 4

51 Persons acting as travel agents—the Act, s 4

(1) A person who carries on business as a travel agent is exempt from the Act in relation to the person’s acts or omissions when carrying on business as a travel agent.

(2) A person carries on business as a travel agent if the person carries on a business involving the following, whether or not in the course of, or as incidental to, or in connection with, another business—

(a) selling tickets entitling another person to travel on, or otherwise arranging a right of passage for another person on, a conveyance,

(b) selling, or arranging or making available, rights of passage to, and hotel or other accommodation at, one or more places—

(i) which are within or outside New South Wales, or

(ii) some of which are within, and others of which are outside, New South Wales,

(c) purchasing for resale the right of passage on a conveyance,

(d) the making, by a person who carries on an activity referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c), of a travel related arrangement, either separately from or in conjunction with the activity.

(3) A person also carries on business as a travel agent if the person holds out or advertises that the person is willing to carry on an activity referred to in subsection (2).

(4) In this section—

travel related arrangement means an arrangement commonly made in connection with an activity referred to in subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c).

Example—

car hire