REPUBLIC OF FIJI

HOTELS AND GUEST HOUSES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2021

ACT NO. 46 OF 2021

I assent.
W. KATONIVERE
President
[2 December 2021]
AN ACT
TO AMEND THE HOTELS AND GUEST HOUSES ACT 1973
ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—
Short title and commencement
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Hotels and Guest Houses (Amendment) Act 2021.
(2) This Act comes into force on a date appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette. 
Section 4 amended
2. Section 4 of the Hotels and Guest Houses Act 1973 is amended by—
	(a)	in subsection (5), deleting "one year" and substituting "not more than 5 years"; and
	(b)	after subsection (5), inserting the following new subsections—
	"(5A) For the avoidance of doubt, every licence issued before the commencement of the Hotels and Guest Houses (Amendment) Act 2021 is valid for a period of one year from the date of its issue unless earlier cancelled.
	(5B) Any application for a licence lodged before the commencement of the Hotels and Guest Houses (Amendment) Act 2021 and is yet to be processed, must be processed in accordance with this section, and any licence issued for such application, is to be issued for a period of not more than 5 years.". 

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 2nd day of December 2021.