Introductory text

Environmental Protection

Marine Management

Made 13th December 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 15th December 2022

Coming into force 9th February 2023

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 85(1)(a), (2) and (4), 86(1) and (3), 92(1) and (5) and 93(1) of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010^f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 85(1)(a) of that Act, this Order is made for the purpose of furthering the stated conservation objectives for the Red Rocks and Longay MPA^f2.

In accordance with section 87(2) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers have sent a copy of a draft of this Order to persons whom they considered were likely to be interested in or affected by the making of this Order.

In accordance with section 87(3) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers have placed a copy of a draft of this Order in such place as they considered was likely to be most convenient for the purpose of enabling it to be inspected by persons likely to be affected by the making of this Order.

In accordance with section 87(6) and (7) of that Act, the Scottish Ministers have published notice of their proposal to make this Order.

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Footnotes

f1: 2010 asp 5.
f2: The Red Rocks and Longay MPA was designated as a nature conservation marine protected area by, and described in article 3 of, the Red Rocks and Longay Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area Order 2022 (“the MPA Order”). The MPA Order is available at https://www.gov.scot/policies/marine-environment/marine-protected-areas/. The conservation objectives are stated in article 5 of the MPA Order.