Section 26 Limitation of fishing licences.

F1 Subject to this F2section, the appropriate agency mayin relation to any such area or areas as are specified in the order, by order confirmed by F3 the appropriate national authority —

The F6appropriate agency may only make an order under subsection (1) above in relation to licences for fishing for fish of any description if it is satisfied that it is necessary to do so for the purposes of—

The appropriate agency may not make an order under subsection (1) above in relation to licences for fishing for fish by—

Where F7 the appropriate national authority proposes to confirm an order under this section, F8 that authority F9shall require the appropriate agency to publish the order and notice of F10that authority's intention to confirm it in such manner as that authority may require, together with a notification that within a period specified in the requirement written objections to the order may be made to F11 that authority .

F12 The appropriate national authority shall consider any such objections received by F13 that authority within the said period, and—

F14 that authority F15 may cause a local inquiry to be held before confirming the order.

If it appears to the F17appropriate agency that an order under this section would prevent a person from fishing in circumstances where that person is wholly dependent on the fishing for his livelihood, the appropriate agency may pay that person such amount by way of compensation as it considers appropriate.

F18 The appropriate national authority may with the F19consent of the appropriate agency vary an order submitted to F20 that authority under this section before confirming it and may F21require the appropriate agency to publish the terms of the proposed variation in such manner, if any, as F22 that authority may specify in the requirement.

An order under this section may be revoked by F23 the appropriate national authority , or by an order F24made by the appropriate agency and confirmed by F25 that authority .

Any order limiting the number of licences in force in a water authority area under section 62 of the M1 Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1923 immediately before 29th June 1972 shall be treated as having limited the number of licences in that area for a period of ten years from that date.