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14. Presumptions
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(a)
that any premises in which rooms or parts of rooms are let or sublet for hire for periods of less than one week constitute a hotel; and
hotel
Defined · s 2
“hotel” includes a boarding house, lodging house, guesthouse and any building or premises not being a public institution and containing not less than 4 rooms or cubicles in which persons are harboured or lodged for hire or reward of any kind and where any domestic service is provided by the owner, lessee, tenant, occupier or manager for the person so harboured or lodged;
(b)
that any person who has or appears to have the care or management of such premises is the occupier of those premises.