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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
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  "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": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee",
  "text": "(1) The Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee are amended as follows.\n(2) In Byelaw 12 (Restrictions on Fishing for Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish)—\n(a) omit paragraph 1 b) and the “or” following it;\n(b) after paragraph 3, insert “References in this Byelaw to bivalve molluscan shellfish do not include cockles.”\n(3) In Byelaw 13 (Cockles – Minimum Size), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in the Specified Area defined in article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024.”\n(4) In Byelaw 13A (Cockles and Mussels – Management of the Fishery)—\n(a) omit “cockles and” and “cockles or” in each place these occur, including in the heading;\n(b) in paragraph 1, omit “cockle (Cerastoderma edule) or”;\n(c) in paragraphs 2 and 3, in both places it occurs, omit “cockle or”.\n(5) Byelaw 14 (Cockle Fishery – Seasonal Closure) is revoked.\n(6) In Byelaw 16 (Shell Fishery – Temporary Closure), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in relation to cockles”.\n(7) In Byelaw 17 (Re-Deposit of Shellfish), omit “, and in re-depositing cockles, in accordance with this byelaw, shall spread them thinly and evenly over the beds”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3(3) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/815), arts. 1(2), 13(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 3(4)(c) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/815), arts. 1(2), 13(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3 in force at 10.7.2024, see art. 1(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "From 1 April 2010, the Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee have effect as if made by the Welsh Ministers in a statutory instrument in relation to the same area of Wales as the area to which that byelaw originally applied by virtue of article 13(3) of and Schedule 4 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/630 (C. 42))."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/767/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}