1. Safety Guidelines
Section 4
Types of Organizations and Registration
1.0
The Management shall ensure that the Organization is registered as applicable, and its membership
valid throughout the time period of its operation.
The Management shall ensure that the Organization is registered with the Apex Body from the field of
hiking & mountaineering in Maharashtra State)
2.0
Guidelines
2.1
Types of Organizations and their mandatory registrations with the Government bodies is as follows
Entity
Document
Statutory Registration
Legal Entity
Adventure
Registration
Proprietorship
Not Required
No
Apex Body
Partner
Partnership Deed
Not Required
(Notarization)
No
Apex Body
Private Ltd Co.
MOA
Companies Act
Yes
Apex Body
Public Ltd. Co.
AOA
Companies Act, SEBI
Yes
Apex Body
Society
Society charter
Charity Commissioner
Yes
Apex Body
Public Trust
2.2
None required
Trust Deed
Charity Commissioner
Yes
Apex Body
Advantages of Registration
•
To ensure that the field of adventure activities is regulated appropriately.
•
To ensure competence of operators and other service providers.
•
To ensure safety of all participants as the primary concern.
•
To take practices in the field of outdoors to the highest professional level through regulation and
guidance, equal to the best in the world.
•
To ensure that better and more consistent information on the adventure tourism sector is
regularly collected, collated and disseminated to all stakeholders.
2.3 Registration of the Organization with APEX BODY
The process of registration of the Organization with apex body is as follows
•
Organization shall furnish required information in the prescribed format to apex body along with
Management’s commitment on implementation of Safety Guidelines in the Organization.
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2. Safety Guidelines
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Apex Body shall review the furnished information and their commitment and register the
Organization as ‘Member’.
The registration is valid initially for one year and then valid for three years.
Apex Body shall reject the application in case the furnished information and commitment are
found to be inadequate.
•
During the period of registration, the organization shall furnish details on annual basis on ‘High
Risk’ activities carried out along with assurance from the Management on implementation of
Safety Guidelines. In case the information provided is not adequate, Apex Body shall request the
Organization for required information to substantiate their claim for implementation of Safety
Guidelines in the Organization.
•
Apex Body shall cancel the registration in case Organization fails to substantiate their claim
regarding implementation of Safety Guidelines in the Organization.
3.0
Verification
•
Evidence of
o
Statutory Registration
o
Adventure Registration
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