Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 1035
The Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1996 No. 1035
SEA FISHERIES
The Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996
| Laid before Parliament | 3rd April 1996 |
| Coming into Force | 24th April 1996 |
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with sea fishing in Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976[1] and now vested in them[2] 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 Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996 and shall come into force on 24th April 1996.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
"the Act" means the Fishery Limits Act 1976;
"ICES areas" means those statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea[3] which are referred to by their short names in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order and are described in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the reference to their short names, but excluding any part of those areas which is within 12 miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is measured or which is outside British fishery limits[4].
Access to British fisheries
3.—(1) The countries specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 of this Order are hereby designated for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Act (hereinafter called "the designated countries").
(2) In relation to each of the designated countries there are hereby designated the ICES areas specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that country (hereinafter called "the designated areas").
(3) The descriptions of sea fish for which the fishing boats registered in any of the designated countries may fish in any of the designated areas shall be those specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that area, which shall have effect subject to the Notes to that Schedule.
Tony Baldry
Minister of State,
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
26th March 1996
Raymond Robertson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Scottish Office
27th March 1996
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Rod Richards
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Welsh Office
3rd April 1996
Patrick Mayhew
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
28th March 1996
Notes:[1] 1976 c. 86; see section 8 for the definition of "the Ministers".
[2] In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.
[3] Cmnd. 2586.
[4] "British fishery limits" are the limits set by or under section 1 of the Act.
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