73 Power to serve notices for protection of European marine sites
Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (2016 anaw 3) | Legislation

73  Power to serve notices for protection of European marine sites

In the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967, after section 5A (as inserted by section 72) insert—

“5B European marine sites: power of Welsh Ministers to serve site protection notice

(1)     If it appears to the Welsh Ministers that harm to a European marine site has occurred, or is likely to occur, as a result of any activity—

(a)     carried on in the exercise of a right conferred by an order made by them under section 1 of this Act, or

(b)     authorised in pursuance of provision made by or under such an order which confers a right of regulating a fishery,

the Welsh Ministers may serve a site protection notice on the grantees of the order.

(2)     A site protection notice is a notice which requires the grantees to take steps specified in the notice for the purpose of preventing harm (or further harm) to the European marine site.

(3)     The provision that may be made by a site protection notice

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