Summary and Background Part 1: Marine Management Organisation Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 Section 7: Regulations supplementary to sections 4 and 4A
58.This section is supplementary to sections 4 and 6 and flows from the transfer of functions of granting fishing boat licences from the Secretary of State to the MMO. Where secondary legislation has been made to set out the procedure for granting licences, any existing references to the Secretary of State in that legislation are to be treated as references to the MMO.