{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-scotland-act-2010/section-116",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-scotland-act-2010/section-116.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2010/5",
  "legislation_title": "Marine (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/116",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "116",
  "heading": "Consultation and consent",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must consult United Kingdom Research and Innovation before granting or varying a seal licence.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must obtain the consent of Scottish Natural Heritage before granting or varying a seal licence authorising the killing or taking of seals in a protected area for a purpose mentioned in any of paragraphs (b) to (e) of section 110(1).\n“protected area” means—\n(a)a Nature Conservation MPA,\n(b)a Demonstration and Research MPA,\n(c)a Historic MPA,\n(d) a site of special scientific interest,\n(e)an area in respect of which a nature conservation order or land management order made under Part 2 of the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 6) has effect,\n(f)a nature reserve (within the meaning of Part 3 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (c.97)), or\n(g)a European site (within the meaning of regulation 10 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 116(1) substituted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 12 para. 25; S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(t) (with transitional and savings provisions in S.I. 2018/245, regs. 2, 3, 26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 116 in force at 1.9.2010 by S.S.I. 2010/230, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/5/section/116",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:30.418460+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."
}