(1)An application for a shell-fish fishery licence shall be made to the Department in such form and manner as the Department may direct and shall be accompanied by any consents required by section 131(4) ( a), ( c) or ( d).
(2)On considering an application for a shell-fish fishery licence—
(a)if the Department is minded to grant the licence it shall—
(i)publish, at the applicant's expense, notice of the application in the Belfast Gazette and in such two or more newspapers as the Department considers appropriate, stating the address to which and the period (not being less than one month from the date of publication) within which objections in writing to the grant of the licence may be sent to the Department; and
(ii)if any objections (not being, in the opinion of the Department, vexatious, frivolous or insubstantial) are received within that period and not withdrawn, and are not such as, without further inquiry, to cause the Department to become minded not to grant the licence, cause a local public inquiry to be held[F2 by the Appeals Commission for the purpose of considering those objections];F2. . .
Head (iii) rep. by 1991 NI 13
Para. (b) rep. by 1991 NI 13
(c)if, otherwise than after the holding of a local public inquiry, the Department is minded not to grant the licence[F2 or grants the licence subject to conditions—
(i)the Department shall give to the applicant a written notification of the reasons why it is minded not to grant the licence or has granted it subject to conditions; and
(ii)the applicant may, within 28 days from the day on which such notification is given, appeal to the Appeals Commission.]