Commentary on provisions of Act Schedule 3: Sea fishing licences: Further provision Regulations about the licensing of fishing boats
Paragraph 7 provides that a relevant national authority (the Devolved Administrations in respect of the boats or zones of their administration, or the Secretary of State) may make regulations as to how a sea fish licensing authority’s licensing functions are to be exercised and as to the time when a licence, or various aspects of it, have effect.
	Sub-paragraph (2) lists some of the matters that may be included in the regulations. Sub-paragraph (3) states that any regulations may make provision authorising the making of charges in relation to a sea fishing licence. Sub-paragraph (4) gives examples of the kind of provision which may be made in respect of charges, such as the amount to be charged, different charges for different classes of licence and that no charge may be payable in certain circumstances.
	Sub-paragraph (5) imposes a duty on the relevant national authority to make regulations as to the principles that are to be applied to licence conditions about time spent at sea as described in sub-paragraph (7). However, sub-paragraph (6) states that the regulations may not make provision about such a principle if the regulations include other principles relating to a description of a restrictions on fishing activities (e.g. a restriction on the size of a fishing boat authorised to fish in an area).
	Sub-paragraph (8) requires regulations including principles about time spent at sea to be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure, while sub-paragraph (9) provides that all other regulations made under this paragraph may be made under the negative resolution procedure. Sub-paragraph 10 defines "relevant national authority" for the purposes of this Schedule.