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title: "The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) (Variation) Order 2025"
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# The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) (Variation) Order 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct an error in S.I. 2024/1211 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2025 No. 855
Sea Fisheries, England
Shellfish
The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) (Variation) Order 2025
Made
14th July 2025
Laid before Parliament
15th July 2025
Coming into force
5th August 2025
The Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (“the Authority”) has made an application to the Secretary of State in accordance with section 1(2) of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967(“the Act”) as read with section 1(6) and(7) of the Act, for an Order to vary the Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024.
The Secretary of State has prepared a draft Order and served a copy of it on the Authority in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act.
The Authority has caused printed copies of the draft Order to be published and circulated, and has given notice of the application, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Act.
The Secretary of State has considered the objections and representations made in respect of the draft Order, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 6 of Schedule 1 to the Act and considers that it is expedient to make this Order.
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act, makes the following Order.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#article-1}

This Order—
(a) may be cited as the Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) (Variation) Order 2025;
(b) comes into force on 5th August 2025; and
(c) extends to England and Wales.

## 2 Variation of the Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024 {#article-2}

(1) The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery (No. 2) Order 2024 is varied as follows.
(2) In article 5 (application for licences etc.), for paragraph (12) substitute—
(12) A person (“P”) is not eligible to be issued with a licence or to have a licence renewed under this article before 18th December 2031 if—
(a) P, or a shareholder or officer of P, was on 30th January 2024 a shareholder or officer of a company (“C”); and
(b) C has been issued with a transitional period licence under article 6.
.