{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2026/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1110",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-and-fees-amendment-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment to article 13 (shellfish propagation and cultivation)",
  "text": "(1) Article 13 is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (b);\n(b) at the end insert\n“or—\n(d) to any such deposit that—\n(i) falls within paragraph (3); and\n(ii) is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the area referred to in that paragraph.”.\n(3) At the end insert—\n“(3) A deposit falls within this paragraph if it is capable of affecting (other than insignificantly)—\n(a) the protected feature of a highly protected marine area; or\n(b) any ecological or geomorphological process on which the conservation of the protected feature of the highly protected marine area is (wholly or in part) dependent.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1110/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:53:36.004889+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."
}