Section 30 — Removal of name of tourism unit, travel agent, guide and adventure sports operator from the register.

30. Removal of name of tourism unit, travel agent, guide and 

adventure sports operator from the register.- The prescribed authority 

may, by order, in writing, remove the name of tourism unit or travel agent or 

guide or adventure sports operator, as the case may be, from the register and 

cancel the certificate of registration issued under section 28, on any of the 

following grounds, namely:-  

(a)  if the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

the adventure sports operator, as the case may be, ceases to 

operate the tourism unit or ceases to act as a travel agent or a 

guide or an adventure sports operator for which he is 

registered;  

(b)  if the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

the adventure sports operator, as the case may be, is convicted 

of any offence under Chapters-XIV and XVI of the Indian 



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Penal Code, 1860 or under any of the provisions of this Act or 

of any offence punishable under any law providing for the 

prevention of hoarding, smuggling or profiteering or 

adulteration of food or drugs or corruption and two years have 

not elapsed since the termination of the sentence imposed 

upon him;  

(c)  if the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

an adventure sports operator, as the case may be, is declared 

insolvent by a court of competent jurisdiction and has not 

been discharged;  

(d) if the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

the adventure sports operator, as the case may be, fails to 

comply with any of the provisions of this Act or rules framed 

thereunder;  

(e)  if the tourism unit operator fails to remove a lodger or 

wilfully keeps the lodger in a tourism unit, who becomes a 

nuisance for the inmates in his tourism unit as well as 

adjoining building(s);  

(f)  if any complaint of malpractice is received and proved against 

the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

adventure sports operator, as the case may be;  

(g)  if the tourism unit operator makes structural changes in the 

tourism unit without the approval of the Development 

Authority constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Town and 

Country Planning Act, 1977 (12 of 1977) or any other local 

authority constituted under the local laws; 

(h)  if the tourism unit operator or the travel agent or the guide or 

the adventure sports operator, as the case may be, has 

obtained the certificate of registration by misrepresentation or 

fraud;  

(i)  if the adventure sports operator does not maintain 

equipments, manpower and other facilities according to 

prescribed standards for safety; and  

(j)  if the adventure sports operator does not take the precautions 

regarding safety measures, as may be prescribed:  

Provided that before removing the name of any tourism unit or the 

travel agent or the guide or the adventure sports operator, as the case may be, 

from the register under this section, the prescribed authority shall give a notice 

to the tourism unit or the travel agent or the guide or the adventure sports 

operator, as the case may be, indicating the grounds on which it is proposed to 

take action after giving him an opportunity of being heard.  



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