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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1761

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1988

Made

13th October 1988

Laid before Parliament

14th October 1988

Coming into force

17th October 1988

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 5(1), (5), 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 Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 17th October 1988.

Variation

2. The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988(2) is hereby varied by inserting in article 2 thereof (prohibition), after the words "is prohibited" the words "except on and between 17 October and 31 October 1988".

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 13th October 1988

L.S.

Trumpington

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

13th October 1988

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

13th October 1988

Tom King

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

13th October 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies the Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988 "the principal Order", which prohibits fishing for cod (Gadus morhua -

(a)by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to that Order, or

(b)by any British fishing boat registered in any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies inside British fishery limits.

This Order varies article 2 of the principal Order to provide that the above-mentioned prohibition shall not apply on and between 17th October and 31st October 1988.

The principal Order ceases to have effect on 31st December 1988.

(1)

1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) and, by virtue of S.I. 1973/238, section 5 applies in relation to British fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man as it applies in relation to British fishing boats registered in the United Kingdom; section 15(3) was substituted by paragraph 38(3) of Schedule 1 to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) and amended by paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of "the Ministers" for the purposes of sections 5 and 15(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).

(2)

S.I. 1988/683.


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