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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessel-decommissioning-scheme-northern-ireland-2003/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessel-decommissioning-scheme-northern-ireland-2003/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/366",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessel (Decommissioning) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessel-decommissioning-scheme-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Approval of applications",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Scheme, the Department may at any time –\n(a) determine conditions to which an approval shall be subject; and\n(b) amend such conditions.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), any person whose application has been approved may be required by the Department to provide, or arrange for the provision of, such undertakings as the Department may consider appropriate in the case.\n(3) The Department shall in writing –\n(a) notify applicants of the result of their applications; and\n(b) notify applicants whose applications they have approved of any conditions which it has determined or amended under paragraph (2).\n(4) The Department shall publish in such manner as it considers appropriate a notice identifying the vessels to which applications selected for approval relate.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), the Department may revoke an approval where it has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there has been any fixing or adjustment of the amount of a bid by, under or in accordance with any agreement (whether legally binding or not) or arrangement with another person.\n(6) Article 15(3) shall apply to revocation under paragraph (5) as it applies to revocation under Article 15.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/366/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:42.870498+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."
}