Development of Tourism Act 1969

5 Miscellaneous duties and powers. E+W+S

(1) It shall be the duty of the British Tourist Authority to advise any Minister or public body on such matters relating to tourism in Great Britain as a whole as the Minister or body may refer to it or as the Authority may think fit; and the English Tourist Board, [F1 VisitScotland] and the [F2 Wales Tourist Board[F2 National Assembly for Wales]] shall have the like duty as respects matters relating to tourism in England, Scotland and Wales respectively.

(2) In the last foregoing subsection “public body” includes any local authority or statutory undertaker, and any trustees, commissioners, board or other persons, who, as a public body and not for their own profit, act under any enactment for the improvement of any place or the production or supply of any commodity or service.

(3) The British Tourist Authority shall have power to carry on, at the request of any corresponding body established under the law of Northern Ireland, any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man and on such terms as may be agreed upon between the Authority and that body, activities outside the United Kingdom and those Islands for encouraging people to visit Northern Ireland or those Islands.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Act substituted (E.W.) (29.3.2007) by Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1103), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 1(2) and words substituted (S.) (1.4.2007) by Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 15), ss. 1(2), 5(1); S.S.I. 2007/47, art. 2

F2 Words in s. 5(1) substituted (E.W.) (23.11.2005) by Wales Tourist Board (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3225), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 5 (with art. 3(1))

F3 S. 5(4) repealed by Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980 (c. 63, SIF 88), s. 18(1), Sch. 2 Pt. I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 5 extended (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 190, Sch. 25 para. 1(2) (xv) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)