{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-licences-and-notices-england-regulations-2012/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/827",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-licences-and-notices-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000;\n“licence” means a licence to which these regulations apply (see regulation 1(2));\n“newspaper” means a newspaper circulating within, or within any part of, the United Kingdom and includes a journal, magazine or other periodical publication;\n“nominee” means either—\n(a)an individual resident in the United Kingdom, or\n(b)a body incorporated, and having a place of business, in the United Kingdom,\nappointed by the owner or charterer of a ... fishing boat to receive, on the owner or charterer’s behalf, licences and notices;\n“notice” means a notice of variation, suspension or revocation of a licence;\n“relevant fishing boat” means—\n(a)a fishing boat or other vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (central register of British ships) and whose entry in the register specifies a port in England as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging, or\n(b)a fishing boat which is registered under the law of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.\n“sea fishing licence ” means a licence to which these regulations apply by virtue of regulation 1(2)(a) or (b);\n“temporary foreign vessel licence” means a licence that—\n(a)is granted in respect of a foreign fishing boat, and\n(b)has effect for a period of no more than three weeks.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 19(3)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 19(3)(b)(i) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 19(3)(b)(ii) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 19(3)(c) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 19(3)(e) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c.7; that definition was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c.21), section 406(1) and paragraph 158 of Schedule 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/827/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:36:45.218088+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."
}