LegalizeThe Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery Order 2024
Made: 11th November 2024
Laid before Parliament: 12th November 2024
Coming into force: 4th December 2024
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Citation, commencement and extent
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Interpretation
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Right of regulating a fishery and duration of right
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Regulations and restrictions applicable in respect of the regulated fishery
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Application for a licence, licence terms and duration of licences
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Transitional Period Licence
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Tolls and fees payable
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Power to create reserves
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Power to remove juvenile cockles
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Exemptions for scientific and fisheries management purposes
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Accounts of income and expenditure and other information
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Rights of landowners and lessees
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Lawful activities of statutory undertakers
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SCHEDULE 1 — THE REGULATED FISHERY
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SCHEDULE 2 — REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO THE FISHERY
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SCHEDULE 3 — CONDITIONS WHICH MAY BE ATTACHED TO A LICENCE
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Signed
Daniel Zeichner — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 11th November 2024
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1967 c. 83. Section 1 of the Act was amended by sections 202(1) to (3), and 203 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23); section 15(1) and (2) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77); section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) (Amendment) Act 1997 (c. 3); and section 9(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to, the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86). The Act is to be read with section 15(3) to (5) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968. Schedule 1 to the Act was amended by section 15(7) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968. The functions of the appropriate Minister as defined in section 22(1) of the Act, by virtue of article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794) the functions of the Minister were transferred to the Secretary of State.
[^f00002]: 2009 c. 23.
[^f00003]: S.I. 2010/2190.
[^f00004]: 1995 c. 21.
[^f00005]: S.I. 2012/2013.
[^f00006]: 2020 c. 22.
[^f00007]: S.I. 1994/2329, as amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2011, Schedule 2(1), paragraph 4 (S.I. 2011/603).
[^f00008]: S.I. 2015/596.
Editorial notes
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