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Applications for certain aquaculture licences. 
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2.—(1) Where before the commencement of section 74 of the Act of 1997 an application was made for a fish culture licence under section 15 of the Principal Act such application shall— 
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(a) be deemed always to have been capable of being so made under the said section 15 notwithstanding the enactment of section 54 of the Act of 1980, and 
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(b) be determined in accordance with the said section 74. 
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(2) Where pursuant to section 19 of the Act of 1933 the Minister has caused notice of an application for a licence for the purposes of aquaculture to be published in accordance with the said section 19, then such notice shall be deemed to be a public notice for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 74 of the Act of 1997. 
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