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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1565

The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1987

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STATUTORY INTRUMENTS

1987 No. 1565

SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1987

Made4th September 1987
Laid before Parliament7th September 1987
Coming into force8th September 1987

    The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 15(3) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967[1], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
    Title and commencement
        1.    This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 8th September 1987.
    Variation of the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1983
        2.    The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1983[2] is hereby varied in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
        3.    In article 3(1) thereof (prohibition of fishing without a licence and exceptions thereto), for the words "Isle of Man Board of Agriculture and Fisheries" there shall be substituted the words "Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Isle of Man".
        4.    In article 3(2)(b) thereof after paragraph (v) the word "or" shall be omitted and after paragraph (vi) there shall be inserted the following —
        "; or
          (vii) in the Firth of Clyde, that is to say the area of sea which lies landward of a line drawn from a point on the mainland of Scotland at 55°17'.9 north latitude and 5°47'.8 west longitude (Mull of Kintyre) to a point on the mainland of Scotland at 55°00'.5 north latitude and 5°09'.4 west longitude (Corsewall Point)".
        5.    For article 4 thereof (retention on board of fish) there shall be substituted the following article —

        "Retention on board of fish
            4.    Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4(9A)(b) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (return to the sea of fish the fishing for which is prohibited), there may be retained on board any fishing boat to which this Order applies a quantity of sea fish consisting of one or more of the descriptions of sea fish specified in an entry in column 2 of Schedule 4 to this Order, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited by or under this Order, and which —
          (a) has been taken on board that fishing boat in a statistical division of ICES VII specified in column 1 of that Schedule opposite that entry, in the course of fishing in that statistical division of ICES VII for any description of sea fish the fishing for which is not for the time being prohibited by or under this Order or any other enactment; and
          (b) does not exceed 10 per cent by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board that fishing boat.".

        6.    After Schedule 3 thereof (orders revoked) there shall be inserted the Schedule to this Order.


In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
4th September 1987.


John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food


Ian Lang

Minister of State, Scottish Office

1st September 1987

Ian Grist

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

28th August 1987

Brian S. Mawhinney

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office

29th August 1987




Notes:

[1] 1967 c. 84; section 4 was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), section 3 and by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 20; section 15(3) was amended by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and by the Fishery Limits Act 1976, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1); section 4 was applied in relation to British fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man and any of the Channel Islands by the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Manx Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/281) and the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Channel Islands Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/280); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of "the Ministers" for the purposes of sections 4 and 15(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).

[2] S.I. 1983/1206, varied by S.I. 1983/1881 and S.I. 1986/1438.

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