{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/1988",
  "legislation_title": "The Cockles and Mussels (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Welsh Ministers may issue a permit to—\n(a) any person who held a permit to fish for or take mussels in the specified area during the period from 1 September in the preceding year until 31 August in the year during which the permit being applied for will commence; and\n(b) forty applicants who hold a current Foreshore Gatherers Safety Training Certificate.\n(2) Applications for the permits that the Welsh Ministers may issue pursuant to sub-paragraph (1)(b) will be considered in chronological order of receipt and those forty permits will be issued to the first forty applicants where eligibility in accordance with that sub-paragraph is established.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 6(1)(a) substituted (10.7.2024) by The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/767), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.9.2011, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1988/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:50.573774+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."
}