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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-appeals-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/80",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-appeals-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for appeals to be made to the Water Appeals Commission against marine licensing decisions and decisions to issue notices varying, suspending or revoking a marine licence or extending a period of suspension taken under Part 4 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (“the Act”). Appeals can also be made to the Water Appeals Commission in respect of enforcement decisions.\nRegulation 5 prescribes the powers of the Water Appeals Commission to determine an appeal.\nRegulations 4, 6, 7 and 8 specify when, on what grounds and by whom an appeal can be made.\nMarine licences are defined in Part 4 of the Act.\nEnforcement notices are a compliance notice, a remediation notice, a stop notice and an emergency safety notice in relation to which the Department of the Environment is an enforcement authority. See section 115 of the Act for definitions of these notices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 C. 23."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2011/80/note",
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  "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."
}