5. Registration of premises as hotel
Feedback & supportNo premises shall be used as a hotel unless they are registered under this section.
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“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;
Every application for registration of any premises as a hotel shall be made to the Board in the prescribed form.
Where an application is duly made under subsection (2) for the registration of premises as a hotel, the Board may, after such inquiry as it considers necessary and on payment of the prescribed fee, grant a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.
The Board may, in its discretion, refuse to register any premises as a hotel without assigning any reason therefor.