The Visitor Accommodation (Register and Levy) Etc. (Wales) Act 2025 (Commencement) Order 2025 / Gorchymyn Deddf Llety Ymwelwyr (Cofrestr ac Ardoll) Etc. (Cymru) 2025 (Cychwyn) 2025

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

Part 1 (overview of the Act),

Part 3 (visitor levy) (including Part 2 of Schedule 2), and

Part 4 (miscellaneous and general provision), save for Chapter 1 of Part 4 as it applies in relation to the register of visitor accommodation providers under Part 2.

require WRA to establish and maintain a register of visitor accommodation providers and set out the information to be contained in a visitor accommodation provider’s entry in the register,

impose a duty on visitor accommodation providers to be registered, to provide WRA with notice of any change to or inaccuracy in their entry in the register and to apply to WRA for removal from the register when they no longer provide or offer to provide visitor accommodation,

specify the requirements for an application to be registered,

provide WRA with powers to register persons where no application has been made to WRA, change the register where no notice has been given to WRA, require information and remove a person from the register where no application for removal has been made,

contain powers for the Welsh Ministers to make subordinate legislation about the register and registration requirements,

introduce Part 1 of Schedule 2 which makes amendments to the TCMA 2016, and to other Acts, relating to Part 2 of the Act,

make amendments to the TCMA 2016 so that the reviews and appeals regime in that Act applies to decisions relating to the register of visitor accommodation providers under Part 2 of the Act,

establish how registration applies where the visitor accommodation provider is a partnership or unincorporated body, and

set out where certain duties and liabilities lie in a number of special cases as they apply in relation to the register under Part 2 of the Act.