LegalizeThe Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1999
Made: 14th January 1999
Laid before Parliament: 21st January 1999
Coming into force: 15th February 1999
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), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 19671 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Title and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 15th February 1999.
Variation of the Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990
2
- (1) The Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 19902 shall be varied in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.
- (2) In article 2 (prohibition) after the words “(Dicentrarchus labrax)” there shall be inserted the following words–
- , or fishing for any species of sea-fish using sand-eels (Ammodytidae) as bait,
- (3) For the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.
Revocation
3
The Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 19923 is hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE
Signed
Elliot Morley — Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food — 12th January 1999
Sewel — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 14th January 1999
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jon Owen Jones — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 12th January 1999
Marjorie Mowlam — Secretary of State for Northern Ireland — 12th January 1999
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1156) (“the principal Order”).
The Order varies the principal Order to prohibit fishing for sea fish using sand eels for bait in the areas, and during the periods, specified in the Schedule to the Order (article 2(2)).
The Order substitutes a new Schedule for the Schedule set out in the principal Order (article 2(3)).
The Bass (Specified Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1992 is revoked (article 3).
A single regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to both this Order and the Sea Fish (Specified Sea Area) (Regulation of Nets and Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Variation) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/74) and deposited in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies may be obtained from:
Footnotes
1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29); 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).
S.I. 1992/3027.
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