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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

Clause 78: Submarine cables on the continental shelf Amendments A33 and A34 A33: Clause 78, page 46, line 41, leave out subsection (1) and insert— "(1) Nothing in this Part applies to anything done in the course of laying or maintaining an offshore stretch of exempt submarine cable. (1A) Where subsection (1) has effect in relation to part (but not the whole) of an exempt submarine cable— (a) the appropriate licensing authority must grant any application made to it for a marine licence for the carrying on of a licensable marine activity in the course of laying any inshore stretch of the cable, and (b) nothing in this Part applies to anything done in the course of maintaining any inshore stretch of the cable. (1B) A licensing authority has the same powers to attach conditions to a marine licence required to be granted by virtue of subsection (1A) as it has in relation to a marine licence not required to be so granted. (1C) In the application of this section in relation to any cable— "inshore stretch" means any of the cable which is laid, or proposed to be laid, within the seaward limits of the territorial sea; "offshore stretch" means any of the cable which is laid, or proposed to be laid, beyond the seaward limits of the territorial sea." A34: Clause 78, page 47, line 1, at beginning insert "For the purposes of this section" Amendments A33 and A34 agreed. Clause 78, as amended, agreed.