{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-licences-and-notices-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-licences-and-notices-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2813",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-licences-and-notices-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Granting of licences and giving of notices",
  "text": "(1) A licence or a notice communicated personally shall be treated as granted or given immediately it is communicated.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (5) hereof, a licence or a notice communicated by post shall be treated as granted or given 48 hours after the end of the day on which it was posted.\n(3) A licence , other than a temporary foreign vessel licence, or a notice communicated by leaving it at an address or place of business or in the hands of a person there or by transmission by electronic means shall be treated as granted or given 24 hours after the time of such communication.\n(3A) In relation to a licence or notice transmitted by electronic means at any time during January 2021, the reference in paragraph (3) to 24 hours is to be read as a reference to one hour.\n(3B) A notice communicated in accordance with regulation 2(2)(b) (publication on website) shall be treated as given immediately it is published in accordance with that provision.\n(3C) A temporary foreign vessel licence communicated in accordance with regulation 2(2B) shall be treated as granted immediately it is published in accordance with that provision.\n(4) A notice communicated in accordance with regulation 2(3) hereof shall be treated as given at the end of the day on which it is published.\n(5) Where a licence or a notice–\n(a) is communicated by post, and\n(b) would be treated as granted or given, in accordance with this regulation, on a Sunday or any day which in the place where it is granted or given is a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 or, in Scotland, is a local holiday,\nthe licence or notice shall instead be treated as granted or given at the end of the next day following which is not a bank holiday or, in Scotland, a local holiday, in that place.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked: (S.) (1.4.2011) by The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/70), regs. 1(1), 7 (with reg. 8); (E.) (6.4.2012) by The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (England) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/827), regs. 1(1), 7; and (N.I.) (8.8.2014) by The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 (S.R. 2014/209), regs. 1(1), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(b) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(b) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(c)(i) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(c)(ii) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(c)(iii) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3A)-(3C) inserted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(d) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(e) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 15(4)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 19.12.1994, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2813/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:44.224737+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."
}