Assignment of Functions (Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry) (Amendment) Notice, 2024 (No. 1)

The President has assigned the administration of the Tourism Act [Chapter 14:20] to the Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, along with the functions conferred or imposed on that Minister generally, except where those functions have been assigned to another Minister.

To match, the Tourism Act is deleted from the schedule of the assignment notice covering the Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The effect is to separate tourism administration out of the combined environment-and-tourism portfolio.

For operators this matters mainly for correspondence and approvals: applications, registrations and appeals under the Tourism Act now sit with the Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry rather than the environment portfolio.

The notice sets no fees, penalties or commencement date. One drafting slip is worth noting: it refers to the "Assignment of Functions (Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry) Notice, 2018" but gives its publication as Statutory Instrument 196 of 2023 — the year in the title and the year of the S.I. do not match.