{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-pre-application-consultation-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-pre-application-consultation-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/286",
  "legislation_title": "The Marine Licensing (Pre-application Consultation) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-licensing-pre-application-consultation-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Pre-application consultation event",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 7A, the prospective applicant for a marine licence must—\n(a) hold at least one pre-application consultation event at which those persons mentioned in regulation 6(2), and members of the public, may provide comments to the prospective applicant as regards the licensable marine activity to which the application for a marine licence is to relate; and\n(b) publish in a local newspaper a notice containing—\n(i) a description, including the location of, the licensable marine activity for which the marine licence is to be sought;\n(ii) details as to where further information may be obtained concerning the proposed licensable marine activity;\n(iii) the date and place of the pre-application consultation event;\n(iv) a statement explaining how persons wishing to provide comments to the prospective applicant relating to the proposed licensable marine activity may do so, and the date by which this must be done; and\n(v) a statement that comments made to the prospective applicant are not representations to the Scottish Ministers and that if the prospective applicant makes an application for a marine licence that there will be an opportunity for representations to be made to the Scottish Ministers on the application.\n(2) A pre-application consultation event must be held no earlier than six weeks after the later of—\n(a) the date on which notification of such event is given in accordance with paragraph (1)(b); and\n(b) the date of notification that an application for a marine licence is to be submitted is given in accordance with regulation 6(2).\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply where—\n(a) a pre-application consultation event in respect of the licensable marine activity for which a marine licence is sought has been held in relation to that activity within one year of the date on which the application for a marine licence is received by the Scottish Ministers;\n(b) that pre-application consultation event has been held in a suitably accessible venue; and\n(c) that pre-application consultation event has been advertised at least six weeks prior to the event in a manner likely to bring the application to the attention of persons likely to be interested in it.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (20.5.2020 at 1.45 p.m.) by virtue of The Marine Works and Marine Licensing (Miscellaneous Temporary Modifications) (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/157), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.1.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/286/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:45.578389+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."
}