Act XLVII of 1976 · 5 pages
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THE PAKISTAN TOURIST GUIDES ACT, 1976
CONTENTS
1. Short title, extent and commencement
2. Definitions
3. Committee
4. Licensing of tourist guides
5. Code of conduct
6. Suspension or cancellation of licence
7. Prohibition to act as a tourist guide
8. Service charges of tourist guides
9. Penalty and procedure
10. Power to exempt
11. Delegation of powers
12. Power to make rules
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THE PAKISTAN TOURIST GUIDES ACT, 1976
ACT No. XXVI OF 1976
[11th May, 1976]
An Act to provide for the regulation and control of the profession of tourist guides
WHEREAS it is necessary and expedient to provide for the regulation and control of the
profession of tourist guides;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Pakistan
Tourist Guides Act, 1976.
(2) It extends to the whole of Pakistan and applies to all tourist guides wherever they may be.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or
context,—
(a) “Committee” means the Tourist Guide Regulatory Committee set up under
section 3 ;
(b) “licence” means licence issued under section 4;
(c) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules;
(d) “rules” means rules made under this Act; and
(e) “tourist guide” means a person licensed as such under section 4.
3. Committee.—(1) As soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, the
Federal Government shall set up a committee to be known as the Tourist Guide Regulatory
Committee consisting of a Chairman and such other members as the Federal Government may
appoint.
(2) The Chairman and other members of the Committee shall hold office during the pleasure
of the Federal Government on such terms and conditions as the Federal Government may determine.
(3) The Committee shall perform the following functions, namely:—
(a) advise the Federal Government in the implementation of the provisions of this
Act and the rules;
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(b) assist the Federal Government in the preparation of the code of conduct for
tourist guides; and
(c) such other functions as are in consonance with provisions of this Act and
which the Federal Government may entrust to it.
4. Licensing of tourist guides.—(1) Any person operating or intending to operate as tourist
guide shall apply to the Federal Government on the prescribed form for grant of a licence.
(2) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the Federal Government may, after
holding the prescribed tests and on payment of the prescribed fee by the applicant, issue to the
applicant, if he qualifies in such tests, a licence in the prescribed form.
(3) The Federal Government shall maintain a register in which the names and
addresses of all tourist guides shall be entered.
(4) The licence shall, unless earlier suspended or cancelled under section 6, remain valid for
a period of three years and may be renewed after every three years in the prescribed manner on
payment of the prescribed fee.
5. Code of conduct.—The Federal Government shall, in consultation with the Committee,
prescribe a code of conduct for tourist guides.
6. Suspension or cancellation of licence.―(1) The Federal Government may, after
affording a tourist guide an opportunity of showing cause against the action proposed to be taken
against him, suspend or cancel the licence of the tourist guide if he—
(a) violates the terms and conditions of the licence; or
(b) violates the code of conduct.
(2) (a) A tourist guide aggrieved by the decision or order under sub-section (1) of an
officer or authority other than the Federal Government may prefer an appeal to
the Federal Government within the prescribed time and in the prescribed
manner and the orders of the Federal Government in such appeal shall be final.
(b) The Federal Government may at any time of its own motion or on an
application of any tourist guide aggrieved by any decision or order passed by
the Federal Government under this Act or the rules, within the prescribed time
and in the prescribed manner, pass such order as it think fit:
Provided that no order against a tourist guide shall be passed unless he
has been given an opportunity of showing cause against it and of being heard.
7. Prohibition to act as a tourist guide.—Except as otherwise provided in the Act, no
person shall hold himself out or act, as a tourist guide unless he holds a licence.
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8. Service charges of tourist guides.—(1) The Federal Government shall, from time to time
by notification in the official Gazette, fix the maximum rates of charges to which a tourist guide
shall be entitled for the services rendered by him.
(2) A tourist guide shall not demand from any person to whom he has rendered any service
as such any amount in excess of the maximum charges fixed under sub-section (1) for that service.
(3) The guides employed on a fixed salary on a wholetime basis by any travel agency
licensed under a law for the regulation and control of the profession of travel and tourist agencies
shall not charge any fee from a tourist.
9. Penalty and procedure.—(1) Whoever—
(a) being a person to whom no licence has been issued, or
(b) being a person whose licence has been cancelled or is for the time being
suspended,
holds himself out, or acts, as a tourist guide or otherwise contravenes the provisions of this Act or
the rules or, being a tourist guide, contravenes the terms or conditions of the licence issued to him
or of a notification issued under sub-section (1) of section 8, or violates the prescribed code of
conduct, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
(2) Any Magistrate for the time being empowered to try in a summary way the offences
specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898),
may try summarily an offence punishable under this Act in accordance with the provisions of
Chapter XXII of that Code.
(3) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this Act except upon a
complaint made in writing by or under the authority of the Federal Government.
10. Power to exempt.—The Federal Government may exempt any class of persons from
the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act, subject to such conditions, if any, as it
may deem fit.
11. Delegation of powers.—The Federal Government may, by notification in the
official Gazette, direct that all or any of its powers under this Act shall, under such
conditions, if any, as may be specified, be exercisable also—
(a) by an officer or authority subordinate to the Federal Government, or
(b) by a Provincial Government or any Officer or authority subordinate to such
Government.
12. Power to make rules.—(1) The Federal Government may, by notification in the official
Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules
may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
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(a) the fees payable for the issue and renewal of a licence;
(b) the form in which an application for a licence is to be made;
(c) the form of the licence;
(d) the code of conduct; and
(e) the conditions to which a licence shall be subject.
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RGN Date: 02-03-2026
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