Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Act 1982
Number 3 of 1982
TRANSPORT (TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS) ACT 1982
REVISED
Updated to 9 December 2022
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Act 1982. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Air Navigation and Transport Act 2022 (40/2022), enacted 7 December 2022, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Act 1982 (Disbursements from Fund) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 644 of 2022), made 9 December 2022, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 3 of 1982
TRANSPORT (TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS) ACT 1982
REVISED
Updated to 9 December 2022
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Preliminary and General
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Section |
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Licences
The Bond
Travellers' Protection Fund
Miscellaneous
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Payments to Fund and Bond not part of tour operator's or travel agent's assets. |
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Acts Referred to |
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1967, No. 12 |
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Public Offices Fees Act, 1879 |
1879, c. 58 |
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Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 |
1851, c. 93 |
Number 3 of 1982
TRANSPORT (TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS) ACT 1982
REVISED
Updated to 9 December 2022
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF THE TRAVEL TRADE AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF CUSTOMERS OF TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS, FOR THOSE PURPOSES TO ENABLE THE MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT TO ISSUE LICENCES TO TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS, AND TO REQUIRE TOUR OPERATORS AND TRAVEL AGENTS TO ENTER INTO AND MAINTAIN BONDS, TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE TRAVELLERS' PROTECTION FUND AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOUR OPERATORS TOWARDS THE RESOURCES OF THAT FUND: AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING. [30th March, 1982]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred to Commission for Aviation Regulation and references to "Minister" construed (27.02.2001, establishment day) by Aviation Regulation Act 2001 (1/2001), s. 9(1)-(3), S.I. No. 47 of 2001, subject to transitional provisions in subss. (4)-(7).
Transfer of functions.
9.—(1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any of the functions transferred by subsection (2) are hereby transferred, on the establishment day, to the Commission.
(2) There are hereby transferred, on the establishment day, to the Commission the functions vested in the Minister by or under each of the following—
(a) the Transport (Tour Operators and Travel Agents) Act, 1982,
(b) the Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act, 1995,
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(3) References to the Minister contained in any Act or instrument relating to any functions transferred by subsection (2) shall, on the establishment day, be construed as references to the Commission.
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Editorial Notes:
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Previous affecting provision: functions transferred from Minister for Communications to Minister of Tourism and Transport (31.03.1987) by Communications (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 1987 (S.I. No. 92 of 1987), art. 4 and sch. part I, in effect as per art. 1(2); superseded as per C-note above.