# Fisheries Amendment (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, Paragraph 6


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of Agriculture had before that date caused a local public inquiry to be held under section 132 of the principal Act (as originally enacted), the Department may treat the application as an application for a shell-fish fishery licence and (if minded following consideration of the report of the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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/227/schedule/3/paragraph/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-amendment-northern-ireland-order-1981/schedule-3/paragraph-6
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