{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/calshot-oyster-fishery-variation-order-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/calshot-oyster-fishery-variation-order-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/697",
  "legislation_title": "The Calshot Oyster Fishery (Variation) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/calshot-oyster-fishery-variation-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES\nMade 9th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 1999\nComing into force 1st April 1999\nWhereas an application for an Order to vary the Calshot Oyster Fishery Order 1982 was made under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) by Calshot Oyster Fishermen Limited (hereinafter referred to as “the grantees”);\nAnd whereas the Minister prepared a draft Order and served a copy of it on the grantees in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to that Act;\nAnd whereas the grantees caused printed copies of the draft Order to be published and circulated, and gave notice of the application, in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Schedule;\nAnd whereas several objections were received by the Minister under paragraph 3 of that Schedule;\nAnd whereas the Minister considered certain objections, which had been duly made and not withdrawn, to be neither frivolous nor irrelevant;\nAnd whereas the Minister appointed an inspector in accordance with paragraph 4(2) of that Schedule to make an inquiry into the subject matter of the proposed Order;\nAnd whereas the inspector, after making such an inquiry, made a report to the Minister in accordance with paragraph 4(7) of that Schedule;\nAnd whereas the Minister has considered the objections and the inspector’s report and thinks it expedient to make the Order;\nNow, therefore, the Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Crown Estate Commissioners, hereby makes the following Order:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/135 as varied by S.I. 1989/178 and 1995/1258."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1967 c. 83; section 1 was amended by section 15(2) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86) and section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) (Amendment) Act 1997 (c. 3), and is to be read with section 15(3) to (5) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968; Schedule 1 was amended by section 15(7) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968; section 22(1) contains a definition of “the appropriate Minister”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/697/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}