Legal Regulation of Timesharing Contract and Other Contracts on Providing of Certain Services in Tourism Services in Slovak Republic

Abstract

Abstract In relation with vacation we are able to meet the terms of timesharing or timeshare. To the definition there is necessary to state that their nature rests in time limitation (time) and sharing (share) of using a thing. The timesharing contract was introduced to Slovak legal order by amendment of Civil Code by the Act No. 150/2004 of the Coll. as a consumer contract on right to use of building or its part in certain time periods. Original legal regulation of timesharing was however later abolished by the Act No. 161/2011 of the Coll. on Protection of the Consumer in Case of Providing of Certain Tourism Services and on Change and Amendments of Other Acts. This paper provides look into evolution of legal regulation of timesharing in Slovakia and further analyses of valid legal regulation of timesharing contract and other contracts related thereto. The Author furthermore inform on using of the mentioned regulation in practice.