6 Trans-shipment licences for vessels

6  Trans-shipment licences for vessels

(1)     The Secretary of State's function of granting licences under section 4A of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c 84) (licences for the receiving by a vessel of fish trans-shipped from another vessel) is transferred to the MMO.

(2)     In subsection (1) of that section (power by order to prohibit trans-shipping of fish unless authorised by a licence granted by one of the Ministers) the reference to one of the Ministers is to be read as including a reference to the MMO instead of a reference to the Secretary of State.

(3)     In the following provisions of that section—

(a)     subsection (6) (conditions of licence),

(b)     subsection (7) (powers to require information),

(c)

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