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Hotel-keeper to present detailed bill. - Every hotel-keeper shall render detailed bills to the person residing in the hotel and other customers and shall give receipts in acknowledgement of all payments. Part IV Travel Agent [18. Registration. - (1) No person shall carry on the business of travel agent, excursion agent or guide in a tourist area unless he is registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (2) Subject to the provisions of clause (d-1) of section 2, every person intending to act as a travel agent, excursion agent or guide in a tourist area shall, before he commences to act as such, apply for registration to the prescribed authority, in the prescribed manner. (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) any person acting as a travel agent, excursion agent or guide in a tourist area on the date a notification under clause (n) of section 2 is issued, shall apply for registration within three months from the aforesaid date : Provided that where, before the commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir Registration of Tourist Trade (Amendment) Act, 1982 any person as aforesaid could not apply for registration within the time specified above he shall so apply for registration within six months after such commencement. (4) Every application made under this section shall be disposed of within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the application failing which the application shall be deemed to have been accepted for registration.] [19. Certificate of registration. - The prescribed authority shall, unless registration is refused under section 20, direct that the name and particulars of the travel agent, excursion agent or guide, as the case may be, be entered in the register maintained for the purpose and issue a certificate of registration to the travel agent, excursion agent or guide in the prescribed form: Provided that no such certificate may be required in the case of house-boat owner functioning as excursion agent in terms of explanation to clause (d-1) of section 2 of this Act.]