Passenger Requirements

The CRUISE OWNER shall meet the following passenger requirements in order to be entitled to the incentives set forth herewith: (a) Minimum Passenger Requirement (1) During the Regular Term of this Regulation, the CRUISE OWNER should have and shall continue to promote and secure a total amount of not less than the amount of passengers who traveled to, embarked or disembarked in the Port of San Juan during the fiscal year from July 1st, 2004 to June 30, 2005, who paid the applicable passenger fees or head tax assessed by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority. (2) Those CRUISE OWNERS that did not used the Port of San Juan during the above mentioned period, should have and shall continue to promote and secure a total amount of not less than the amount of passengers who traveled to, embarked or disembarked in the Port of San Juan in the last fiscal year that said CRUISE OWNER used the Port of San Juan before the date of approval of this Regulation. (3) This Requirement will not apply to those CRUISE OWNERS that have never used the Port of San Juan, provided that this exception will only be applicable for the first fiscal year that said CRUISE OWNER use any port in the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico. After said first fiscal year elapsed, said CRUISE OWNER should have and shall continue to promote and secure a total amount of not less than the amount of passengers who traveled to, embarked or disembarked in all of the ports in the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico in the first fiscal year that said CRUISE OWNER used any of those ports.