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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1981/227",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Amendment (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where following an application made by any person before the date of the commencement of Article 8 for an oyster bed licence the Department of Agriculture had before that date caused a local public inquiry to be held under section 132 of the principal Act (as originally enacted), the Department may treat the application as an application for a shell-fish fishery licence and (if minded following consideration of the report of the person who conducted the inquiry to grant the licence) grant such a licence to the applicant without complying with section 132 (as substituted by Article 8).",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:19.306944+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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