Schedule 9: Licensing: Transitional Provision Relating to Part 4 Parts 2 and 3: Coast Protection Act 1949; Food and Environment Protection Act 1985
946.These two Parts provide that all consents under the Coast Protection Act 1949 and FEPA licences issued before the commencement of the marine licensing provisions are to be considered as if they were marine licences granted under the Act. Additionally, applications for CPA consent and FEPA licences currently under consideration by the licensing authority at the time of commencement of the marine licensing provisions are to be considered by the licensing authority as applications for a marine licence. No additional fees will be required. Any information held by an authority in a register of information that it maintained under section 14 of FEPA must be transferred to the register of information that that authority will maintain under section 101 of the Act.