The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) Regulations 1995

Acceptance of payment and provision of receipt

4.—(1) A person acting in his capacity as a licence holder shall not accept payment in respect of the making available of flight accommodation unless he supplies, by the specified method, to the person from whom such payment is accepted, an ATOL receipt or an ATOL confirmation invoice.

(2) (a) A person acting in his capacity as the agent of a licence holder shall not accept payment in respect of the making available of flight accommodation unless he supplies, by the specified method, to the person from whom such payment is accepted, an ATOL receipt or an ATOL confirmation invoice.

(b)Where such a person supplies an ATOL receipt, he shall, by the specified method, notify the licence holder on whose behalf he is acting. Such notification shall include sufficient information to enable the licence holder to issue an ATOL confirmation invoice. Upon receipt of the ATOL confirmation invoice from the licence holder, the agent shall forward it by the specified method to the person to whom he supplied the relevant ATOL receipt.

(3) A person acting in his capacity as a ticket provider shall not accept payment in respect of the making available of flight accommodation unless he has either previously supplied, or supplies by the specified method, to the person from whom such payment is accepted, a valid ticket.

(4) Before a payment for flight accommodation is accepted from or on behalf of a person who is not present at the time, that person shall be advised, by some appropriate means, of the name of the person accepting the payment, the capacity in which he is making available the accommodation and, if he is acting as an agent for a licence holder, the name of the licence holder and the number of the licence.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation “the specified method” shall mean:

(a)in the case of a document required to be given to a person from whom payment is accepted and who is present, by handing the required document to him in person at the time such payment is made; and

(b)in any other case, by sending the required document by first class post or by some other means no less expeditious as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event not later than the following working day.