Article 2 Variation of the Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024

The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024 is varied as follows.

In article 5 (application for licences etc.), for paragraph (12) substitute—

“(12)

A person (“P”) is not eligible to be issued with a licence or to have a licence renewed under this article before 18th December 2031 if—

(a)

P, or a shareholder or officer of P, was on 30th January 2024 a shareholder or officer of a company (“C”); and

(b)

C has been issued with a transitional period licence under article 6.”.