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The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No.3) Order 2010

S.I. 2010/907 · Made 20 March 2010 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Marine Management

Fisheries

Made 20th March 2010

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 324(3) of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2009 c. 23.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Appointed day – 1st April 2010
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No.3) Order 2010.

2Appointed day – 1st April 2010

(1)

The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 referred to in paragraph (2) is 1st April 2010.

(2)

The provisions of that Act are—

(a)

section 4 (transfer to the Marine Management Organisation (“the MMO”) of Secretary of State’s function of granting licences under section 4 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967f1 (“the 1967 Act”), etc);

(b)

section 5 (reference to the Minister in section 4AA(5) of the 1967 Act to be read in certain cases as a reference to the MMO);

(c)

section 6 (transfer to the MMO of Secretary of State’s function of granting licences under section 4A of the 1967 Act, etc);

(d)

section 7 (certain references to the Secretary of State in regulations made under section 4B of the 1967 Act to be read in certain cases as references to the MMO, etc);

(e)

section 8 (transfer to the MMO of the Secretary of State’s functions under section 9(1) to (4) of the 1967 Act), so far as not already commenced by section 324 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.

Signature

Huw Irranca-Davies

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

20th March 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This instrument brings into force sections 4 to 8 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (“the 2009 Act”), which relate to the transfer of certain functions of the Secretary of State under the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 to the Marine Management Organisation. With the commencement of those sections, Part 1 of the 2009 Act (Marine Management Organisation) is fully in force.

A full impact assessment of the effect that the 2009 Act will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector has been produced, and copies are available from the website of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at www.defra.gov.uk. No separate impact assessment has been produced for this instrument.