{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-scottish-offshore-region-order-2011/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-scottish-offshore-region-order-2011/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Scottish Offshore Region) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-exempted-activities-scottish-offshore-region-order-2011",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exemption from need for marine licence",
  "text": "(1) A marine licence is not needed for an activity that is an exempt activity.\n(2) An activity is an exempt activity to the extent that—\n(a) it is an activity to which an article in Part 3 applies; and\n(b) it satisfies any conditions specified in that article in relation to that activity.\n(3) But this is subject to paragraph (4) and article 5 .\n(4) Nothing in this Order makes an activity an exempt activity to the extent to which the carrying on of the activity is contrary to international law.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(3) substituted (3.2.2012) by The Marine Licensing (Exempted Activities) (Scottish Inshore and Offshore Regions) Amendment Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/25), arts. 1, 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/57/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:27.533399+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."
}