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

Made: 28th November 1988

Laid before Parliament: 29th November 1988

Coming into force: 30th November 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), 15(3) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967[^f00001], 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) (Revocation) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 30th November 1988.

Revocation

2

The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 24th November 1988.

John MacGregor — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Sanderson of Bowden — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 28th November 1988

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 27th November 1988

Tom King — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 28th November 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988 as varied, which prohibited fishing for cod (Gadus morhua) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands within any part of a sea area specified in that Order with effect from 11th April 1988.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1988/683, varied by S.I. 1988/1761.