A person shall not provide or offer to provide tourist accommodation in any establishment unless a certificate under Article 13 is in force in respect of that establishment.

The proprietor of an establishment shall not describe or hold out, or permit any person to describe or hold out, that establishment as being within a statutory category of tourist accommodation unless there is in force in relation to that establishment a certificate under Article 13 allocating that establishment to that statutory category.

A person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both.