{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-and-research-act-2017-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-and-research-act-2017-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/245",
  "legislation_title": "The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Consequential, Transitional, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/higher-education-and-research-act-2017-consequential-transitional-transitory-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Consultation of NERC in relation to seals",
  "text": "(1) Any consultation with NERC before 1st April 2018 in respect of a provision specified in paragraph (2) and regarding an authorisation given, or a licence to be granted or varied, a designation to be made, or a review to be undertaken (as the case may be), is to have effect from that date as if it were a consultation with UKRI.\n(2) The provisions are—\n(a) in the Conservation of Seals Act 1970—\n(i) section 3(1) (order prohibiting the killing, injuring or taking of seals);\n(ii) section 10(3)(a) (power to grant licences);\n(iii) section 11(1)(a) (authorisation of a person to enter land to obtain information about seals); or\n(iv) section 11(1)(b) (authorisation of a person to enter land to kill or take seals);\n(b) paragraph 9(a) of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (application of enforcement provisions for the purposes of the conservation of seals); or\n(c) in the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010—\n(i) section 116(1) (power to grant a seal licence);\n(ii) section 117 (designation of a haul-out site);\n(iii) section 118(2) (designation of a seal conservation area);\n(iv) section 120(1) (authorisation of a person to enter land to obtain information about seals);\n(v) section 121(1) (authorisation of a person to enter land to kill or take seals); or\n(vi) section 129(2)(b) (review of seal licensing regime).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2010 asp 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/245/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:01:27.001108+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."
}