The Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Amendment) Order 1996

Made: 23rd May 1996

Laid before Parliament: 24th May 1996

Coming into force: 29th May 1996

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf; and, in accordance with section 1(2) of the Act, after consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Countryside Council for Wales and such other persons as the Minister and the Secretary of State consider appropriate; and being of the opinion that the species of live fish to which this Order applies might compete with, displace, prey on or harm the habitat of any freshwater fish, shellfish or salmon in England and Wales, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 29th May 1996.

Amendment of principal Order

2

For the Schedule to the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996[^f00002] there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Tony Baldry — Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 23rd May 1996

Rod Richards — Parliamentary under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 22nd May 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which is made under section 1 of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980, and which comes into force on 29th May 1996, amends the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996 by substituting a new Schedule for the Schedule to that Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 27; section 1(2) was amended by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 4), section 132(1)(a) and Schedule 9, paragraph 8; section 1(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 24), section 37(2); see section 4 for definitions of “the Minister”, “fish” and “shellfish”.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/1104.