{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/767",
  "legislation_title": "The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duty to close a cockle bed",
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers must by declaration close an open cockle bed if there is evidence that—\n(a) the harvestable surplus has been fished or taken,\n(b) closure is necessary to avoid an adverse effect on the integrity of a relevant protected site, or\n(c) closure is necessary to assess the risk of adverse effect on the integrity of a relevant protected site.\n(2) A declaration closing a cockle bed must include the reason why it has been closed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 10.7.2024, see art. 1(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/767/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:33.004555+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}