South African Institute for Drug Free Sport Act, 1997
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Tourism Act, 2014 (Act No. 3 of 2014)Chapter 6 : Tourist Guides54. Action by Provincial Registrar regarding disqualification of tourist guides |
(1)
| (a) | If a Provincial Registrar has reason to believe that a tourist guide has become subject to any disqualification referred to in section 50(3), the Provincial Registrar must by notice, sent by registered post or any other effective method, inform the tourist guide of the allegation against him or her and call upon that tourist guide to submit such representations in connection therewith as he or she may wish to make. |
| (b) | The representations must be submitted to the Provincial Registrar within the period specified in the notice, which may not be fewer than 30 days from the date of the notice. |
(2) The notice must direct the attention of the tourist guide to the possibility of his or her registration as a tourist guide being withdrawn.
(3) The tourist guide may present his or her case personally before the Provincial Registrar or through an adviser of his or her choice.
| (4) | If, after considering the allegations against the tourist guide and his or her representations, if any, the Provincial Registrar is satisfied that one or more of the disqualifications referred to in section 50(3) are applicable, the Provincial Registrar must withdraw the registration as a tourist guide. |
(5)
| (a) | The Provincial Registrar may, by the notice referred to in subsection (1), suspend, for a period not exceeding 30 days, the registration of the tourist guide concerned, pending the decision of the Provincial Registrar under subsection (4). |
| (b) | The Provincial Registrar must, before the decision to suspend the registration of the tourist guide is taken, afford the tourist guide an opportunity to make representations to show why the registration should not be suspended. |
(6) Subsection (3) applies to any proceedings for the suspension of the registration of a tourist guide under subsection (5).
| (7) | If the registration of a tourist guide is suspended in terms of subsection (5), the Provincial Registrar must make the prescribed endorsement in the register of tourist guides referred to in section 49(2), against the name of the tourist guide. |
| (8) | The Provincial Registrar must cause the names of any person whose registration has been withdrawn under this section to be published in the Gazette and in at least one newspaper that circulates in the province concerned. |
