Legal Aspects in Tourism and Hospitality

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  • a law that creates, defines, and regulates rights, or which regulates the rights and duties w/c give rise to a cause of action.
    Substantive Law
  • a law that provides method of aiding and protecting certain rights.
    Adjective Law
  • a law that applies to all the people of a state or to all of a particular class of persons in a state, with equal force and obligation.
    Public Law
  • a law dealing w/ crimes and their punishment, as well as the procedure for that purpose.
    Criminal Law
  • a bod of rules or principles of action governing the relations between states.
    International Law
  • law regulating the relations sustained by the inhabitants of a territory to the sovereign.
    Political Law
  • a law w/c relates to particular persons or things of a class.
    Private Law
  • the mass of precepts w/c determines and regulates those relations and assistance, authority, and obedience existing among members of a family and those w/c exist among members of a society for the protection of private interests.
    Civil Law
  • the law dealing with commerce by the sea, involving regulation of ships and harbors and status seamen.
    Maritime Law
  • the law of commercial transactions derived from the law merchant w/c includes, commercial paper, insurance, and other types of agency.
    Mercantile Law
  • is defined as the custom or practice of traveling for pleasure, as well as the promotion by the establishment of countries to attract tourist.
    Tourism
  • it is the fundamental law of the land, to w/c all other laws must conform.
    The Philippine Constitution
  • it is the written will of the legislative department rendered authentic by certain prescribed forms and solemnities, prescribing rules of action, or civil conduct w/ respect to persons, things, or both.
    Statutes or legislative enactments
  • these are issued by administrative officials under legislative authority.
    Administrative or executive orders, regulations, and rulings
  • these refer to the decisions of the Supreme
    Court in interpreting the laws of the Constitution.
    Judicial decisions or jurisprudence
  • it is a rule of conduct w/c in a given place among given groups of people, has been followed for an appreciable time.
    Custom
  • these refer to decisions of foreign tribunals and opinions of textbook writers.
    Other sources
  • is defined as the original and fundamental principles of law by w/c a system of government is created and according to w/c a country is governed.
    Constitution
  • No persons shall be deprived of life, liberty and property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.
    Article 3 The Bill of Rights
  • is defined as “anything w/c is or may be the object of appropriation.
    Property
  • is a law w/c hears before condemns; w/c proceeds upon inquiry, renders judgment after trial.
    Due process of law
  • An obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do or not to do.

    Article 1156
  • The Congress shall , upon recommendation of the economic and planning agency, when the national interest dictates, reserve to citizens of the Philippines or to corporations or associations at least sixty per centum of whose capital is owned by such citizens, or such higher percentage as Congress may prescribe, certain areas of investments.
    Article 12 National Economy and Patrimony
  • A contract is a meeting of minds between two persons whereby one binds himself, with respect to the other, to give something o to render some service.
    Article 1305
  • The vendor is bound to transfer the ownership of and deliver, as well as warrant the thing which is the object of the sale.
    Article 1495 
  • The vendee is bound to accept delivery and to pay the price of the thing sold at the time and place stipulated in the contract.
    Article 1582
  • It is a government corporation created under the Tourism Act of 2009. Its main role is to implement quality infrastructure and development projects that support inclusive tourism growth.
    Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA)
  • It refers to designated areas where tourism-related investments are encouraged. These zones aim to attract investments, create job opportunities, and develop tourism infrastructure in specific areas to boost tourism development.
    Tourism Enterprise Zones (TEZ)
  • It regulates the economic aspects of air transportation. It supervises and controls air carriers, sales agents, cargo agents, and air freight forwarders.
    Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)
  • It is responsible for the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, including those used in the tourism industry.
    Land Transportation Office (LTO)
  • It is responsible for the development, management, and preservation of national parks in the Philippines.
    NPDC (National Parks Development Committee)
  • It is a body corporate created under the Tourism Act of 2009. Its main role is to promote and market the Philippines as a tourist destination.
    Tourism Promotions Board (TPB)
  • It provides incentives and assistance to both local and foreign investors, encourages the establishment of priority industries, and supports the country’s economic development goals.
    Board of Investments (BOI)
  • It is responsible for the development, regulation, and promotion of the maritime industry in the Philippines.
    Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA)
  • An act requiring the mandatory installation of speed limiter in public utility and certain types of vehicles.
    R.A no. 10916
  • It is the law provides that no establishment shall be operated and opened for public patronage without a sanitary permit issued by the secretary of health or his duly authorized representative.
    P.D 856 code on sanitation of the philippines
  • It is the law requires owners, administrators or occupants of building, structures and their premises or facilities and other responsible person to comply.
    P.D 1185 fire code of the philippines
  • It is the law provides for the minimum standards solid waste management, as well as penalties for violation there of.
    R.A 9003 Ecological solid waste management.
  • It is the law provides for the minimum standards for air quality management, natural resources management, and conversation and waste management.
    P.D 1152 Philippine Environmental Code
  • It refers to information or the representation of information, data, figures, symbols or other modes of written expression.
    R.A no. 8792 the electronic commerce law