Commentary on provisions of Act Schedule 4: Access and licensing: minor and consequential amendments Part 2: Licensing of fishing boats
This part makes changes to legislation consequential to the licensing provision in the Act. In particular, paragraph 6(2) revokes section 4 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, which contains the licensing provisions replaced by the Act
	This part also amends secondary legislation to provide an expediated process that allows for licences for foreign fishing boats to come into force by communicating them electronically to the European Commission (or in the case of a non-EU fishing boat the relevant regulatory authority) and publishing them on a website. The expediated licence would be temporary and would only be issued where there was insufficient time for each fishing boat to be licensed individually in time for the start of the agreement.