{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1992/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Tourism (Northern Ireland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-northern-ireland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Classification or grading of certified tourist establishments",
  "text": "(1) The Board may make, and from time to time revise, a scheme for the classification or grading by the Board of certified tourist establishments allocated under this Part to a particular statutory category of tourist establishment.\n(2) A scheme under this Article shall—\n(a) set out the criteria to be applied by the Board in classifying or grading any tourist establishment under the scheme;\n(b) provide a right of appeal to a body constituted in accordance with the scheme for any person aggrieved by a decision of the Board as to the classification or grading of any tourist establishment under the scheme;\n(c) be published, as for the time being in force, by the Board.\n(3) Where a tourist establishment has been classified or graded under a scheme under this Article, the proprietor of that establishment shall not describe or hold out that establishment as being of a classification or grade other than that for the time being allotted to it under that scheme.\n(4) The proprietor of a tourist establishment which has not been classified or graded under a scheme under this Article shall not describe or hold out that establishment as being of any classification or grade which could be allotted to an establishment under such a scheme.\n(5) A person who contravenes paragraph (3) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1992/235/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:15.453064+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}