{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-fees-wales-regulations-2017/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-fees-wales-regulations-2017/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2017/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-fees-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, Wales\nLicensing (marine), Wales\nMarine Pollution, Wales\nMade 6 March 2017\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 8 March 2017\nComing into force 1 April 2017\nIn exercise of the powers conferred by sections 67(2), (3), 72A(4), 107A(3), 107B(5) and 316(1)(b) of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, the Welsh Ministers, as the appropriate licensing authority under section 113(4)(b) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 c. 23; amended by Part 6 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 3), there are other amendments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By virtue of section 113(4)(b) of the Act, the Welsh Ministers are the appropriate licensing authority as respects anything done in the course of carrying on a licensable marine activity in relation to Wales and the Welsh inshore region, other than activities for which the Secretary of State is the appropriate licensing authority by virtue of section 113(4)(a) and (5) of the Act. See section 322(1) of the Act for a definition of the “Welsh inshore region”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/280/introduction",
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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."
}