{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-no-2-order-2024/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-no-2-order-2024/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1211",
  "legislation_title": "The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-no-2-order-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967;\n“the application window” means the period prescribed by the Authority in which an application for a licence or transitional period licence must be submitted;\n“the Authority” means the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority established under section 149 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and as defined in articles 2 and 4 of the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Order 2010;\n“cockle” means any shellfish of the genus Cerastoderma;\n“fisheries offence” means any offence under any UK fisheries legislation other than that specified by the definition of “relevant offence”;\n“licence holder” means the person or company named on a licence issued by the Authority under this Order permitting that person to dredge, fish for or take cockles within the regulated fishery;\n“the regulated fishery” means that part of the Thames Estuary described in Schedule 1;\n“relevant fishing vessel” means a vessel—\n(a) registered in accordance with Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993; and\n(b) in respect of which there is a valid fishing licence issued under the Fisheries Act 2020;\n“relevant offence” means any offence under the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 or section 292 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;\n“transitional period licence” means a licence to dredge, fish for or take cockles within the regulated fishery issued pursuant to article 6.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 18.12.2024, see art. 1(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2190."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2012/2013."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2020 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1211/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:48.489714+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."
}