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<Text>In sections 2, 7, 9 and 12 of the <MarginNoteRef Ref="m00020"/>Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 references to a bed for shellfish, a shellfish bed or an oyster bed shall include references to any structure floating on, or standing or suspended in, water for the propagation or cultivation of shellfish or, as the case may be, oysters ; and—</Text>
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<Text>the area of a fishery to which an order under section 1 of that Act relates may, within the limits specified in subsection (1) of that section, include any waters which contain or are to contain any such structure ;</Text>
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<Text>the reference in section 5 of that Act to cultivating the ground for shellfish shall include a reference to cultivating shellfish by means of any such structure.</Text>
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<Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/83" id="c00040" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="1967" Number="0083">1967 c. 83</Citation>.</Text>
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