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This Order—
(a) may be cited as the Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) (Variation) Order 2025;
(b) comes into force on 5th August 2025; and
(c) extends to England and Wales.
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(1) The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024 is varied as follows.
(2) 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.”.
Daniel Zeichner
Minister of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
14th July 2025