Publication of notice of application for a safety zone notice
4.—(1) The applicant shall publish notice of an application—
(a)in two successive weeks in one or more local newspapers which are likely to come to the attention of those likely to be affected by the safety zone;
(b)in Lloyd’s List and in one or more national newspapers;
(c)if there are in circulation one or more appropriate fishing trade journals which are published at intervals not exceeding one month, in at least one such trade journal;
(d)in the London Gazette, unless the safety zone is proposed or located wholly within waters mentioned in sub-paragraphs (e) or (f);
(e)in the case of an application relating to a safety zone proposed or located wholly or partly in an area of Scottish waters or an area of waters in the Scottish part of the Renewable Energy Zone(1), the Edinburgh Gazette; and
(f)in the case of an application relating to a safety zone proposed or located wholly or partly in that part of the Renewable Energy Zone that lies in the part of the sea which is treated as adjacent to Northern Ireland for the purposes of article 3(1)of the Adjacent Waters Boundaries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002(2), the Belfast Gazette.
(2) The applicant shall, at the same time as publishing the notice under paragraph (1)(a), send a copy of the notice to—
(a)the harbour masters of ports whose users are in the opinion of the applicant likely to be affected by the application;
(b)the sector office of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency which is responsible for operations in the waters in which the safety zone is proposed or located; and
(c)the local office of the Marine and Fisheries Agency which is responsible for operations in the waters in which the safety zone is proposed or located,
requesting that the notice be displayed for a period of not less than 14 days at an address accessible during normal office hours to members of the public likely to be affected by the application.
“Scottish waters” is defined in section 104(1) of the Energy Act 2004 as internal waters of the United Kingdom that are in or adjacent to Scotland or so much of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom as is adjacent to Scotland. The “Scottish part” of the Renewable Energy Zone was designated by the Renewable Energy Zone (Designation of Area) (Scottish Ministers) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3153).