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PART III
Regulation of Operators
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Register of operators.
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33.—(1) The Authority shall establish and maintain a register of all adventure activities operators in the State, referred to subsequently in this Act as “the register”.
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(2) The Authority may enter in the register such particulars as it, after consultation with the Minister, considers appropriate.
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(3) The Authority may amend an entry in or delete an entry from the register.
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(4) The register may be established and maintained in a form that is not legible if it is capable of being converted into a legible form.
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(5) The register shall be made available for inspection by members of the public at reasonable times during normal working hours.
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(6) The Minister shall have access to and may inspect and examine the register and may take or be supplied with such information from the register as he or she considers appropriate for the purpose of his or her functions, and may take or be supplied with copies of the register or of such extracts from the register as he or she considers appropriate for the purpose of his or her functions.
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(7) A person shall not act as an adventure activities operator unless he or she is entered in the register as an adventure activities operator in respect of that adventure activity.
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(8) (a) If in any proceedings under this Act a question arises as to whether a person was at the relevant time registered in the register as an adventure activities operator in respect of an adventure activity, a certificate signed by a person authorised by the Authority and stating any fact relating to the question shall be evidence of that fact.
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(b) A document purporting to be a certificate described in paragraph (a) shall be deemed to be such a certificate, and to be signed in accordance with the authorisation, unless the contrary is shown.
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