"hotel" means a lodging, or boarding and lodging, establishment with a minimum of ten lettable bed rooms, provided for guests-on monetary consideration, which conforms to any of the prescribed minimum criteria, but does not include—

(i) a home or hostel which is exclusively or mainly used for the aged or invalid persons or students and is run by, or under the control of, a charitable or educational institution; or

(ii) any rest house, hostel or circuit house exclusively meant for visiting Government officials or officials of other organisations, though run on a commercial basis.

[See, section 2(g), the Hotels and Restaurants Ordinance, 1982 (Ordinance No. LII of 1982)].