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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-decommissioning-scotland-scheme-2001/section-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/332",
  "legislation_title": "The Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning) (Scotland) Scheme 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fishing-vessels-decommissioning-scotland-scheme-2001",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Decommissioning of the vessel",
  "text": "(1) At least two weeks prior to the decommissioning of the vessel the applicant shall notify the Ministers in writing of the intended date and place of decommissioning (which shall be within a member State) and the proposed method of decommissioning.\n(2) The vessel shall not be decommissioned until the method of decommissioning notified under sub-paragraph (1) has been approved by the Ministers.\n(3) The vessel shall be decommissioned–\n(a) before the appropriate decommissioning date; and\n(b) in accordance with–\n(i) the method of decommissioning which has been approved by the Ministers under sub-paragraph (2); or\n(ii) in exceptional circumstances and with the consent of the Ministers (which may be given before or after the decommissioning), any other method of decommissioning which accords with sub-paragraph (4).\n(4) In this Scheme “decommissioning”, in relation to a vessel, means the permanent withdrawal of that vessel from operation within the sea fish industry of the European Community by any means within the provisions of Article 7 of Council Regulation 2792/1999.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Para. 8 in force at 29.6.2001, see para. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/332/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:45:11.913478+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."
}