S.L. 409.8 ст. 5AFiling and processing of applications.

(1) Applications for a licence to conduct a tourism operation are to be made on the appropriate application form issued by the Authority for the purpose, together with other such documentation required by these regulations, the Authority’s implementation guidelines or set out in the application form.

(2) The Authority may, in ensuring whether an applicant satisfies the requirements for a licence, request and conduct an interview with such an applicant or request and conduct an inspection of the premises that shall be used for the tourism operation being applied for, and the applicant shall accede to such requests without delay.

(3) Every applicant shall, together with the application form submitted to the Authority, make a payment of any relevant application fee payable to the Authority.

(4) The Authority shall, without delay, acknowledge receipt of the application form and the application fee by letter to the applicant and shall specify:

(a) the periods mentioned in sub-regulation (6) and sub-regulation (7) within which the Authority shall determine the application;

(b) the procedure under which a refusal by the Authority to grant a licence may be appealed in terms of the Act; and

(c) that an applicant shall not be deemed to have been issued a licence where the Authority does not determine an application form within the periods mentioned in sub-regulations (6) and (7).

(5) In the case of an incomplete application form, the Authority shall, without delay, inform the applicant of the need to supply any additional information or documentation, or of the need to conduct any interviews or inspections referred to in sub-regulation (2), and that the Authority shall not commence processing the application, or proceed to the next step in the processing of the application, as the case may be, unless the Authority receives a complete application form or the required documentation: Provided that an application form shall not be deemed to be complete unless the Authority is in receipt of all the documentation required to be submitted together with the application form or certification of compliance with all requirements, including compliance that is established by means of interview or the inspections referred to in sub-regulation (2).

(6) The Authority shall determine whether to issue a licence, within forty-five days from the date of receipt of a complete application form.

(7) The period mentioned in sub-regulation (5) may, prior to the expiry of the relevant period, be extended by the Authority for one period of not more than sixty days. Such extension and the reasons therefore shall be notified to the applicant without delay.

(8) Where the Authority has not determined whether to issue a licence to an applicant, within the periods mentioned in sub-regulation (6), or within the extended period mentioned in sub-regulation (7), such applicant shall not be deemed, for all intents and purposes of law, to be licensed.