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2003 No. 499

SEA FISHERIES

The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

  Made 1st December 2003 
  Coming into operation 1st December 2003 

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 19(1), 124(1), (2) and (2A) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966[1] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 1st December 2003.

Amendment of Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) Regulations (Northern Ireland)
    
2. The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993[2] shall be amended as follows -



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on


1st December 2003.

L.S.


T. McCusker
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)


These Regulations amend the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 to prohibit in Strangford Lough -

The Regulations also prohibit fishing for scallops in the northern part of the Lough and introduce a closed season for such fishing in the rest of the Lough.


Notes:

[1] Fisheries Act Northern Ireland 1966; section 124(2A) was inserted by the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, c. 4back

[2] S.R. 1993/155 (N.I.)back



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Prepared 6 January 2004


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