The Sea Fishing (Marking and Identification of Passive Fishing Gear and Beam Trawls) (England) Order 2006

Made: 13th June 2006

Laid before Parliament: 16th June 2006

Coming into force: 10th July 2006

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Citation and commencement

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Extent and application

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Interpretation

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Offences

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Penalties

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Recovery of fines

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Powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats

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Powers of British sea-fishery officers to seize fish and fishing gear

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Protection of officers

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Obstruction of officers

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Provisions as to offences

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Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents

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SCHEDULE — REQUIREMENTS AS TO DEPLOYMENT, MARKING AND IDENTIFICATION OF PASSIVE FISHING GEAR, BUOYS AND BEAM TRAWLS, CONTRAVENTION OF WHICH CONSTITUTES AN OFFENCE

Signed

Ben Bradshaw — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 13th June 2006

David Cairns — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Northern Ireland Office — 13th June 2006

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 29. See section 30(3) for the definitions of “enforceable Community restriction”, “enforceable Community obligation” and “the Ministers”, as modified by Schedule 2, paragraph 68(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820).

[^f00002]: Article 3(1) of and Schedule 1 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Concurrent Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1592) provide for the functions exercisable under section 30(2) of the 1981 Act to be exercised by the Ministers, concurrently with Scottish Ministers, in relation to: British fishing boats (other than Scottish ones) within the Scottish zone and Scottish fishing boats within British fishery limits but outside the Scottish zone. By virtue of article 2(a) of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions exercisable under section 30(2) of the 1981 Act were transferred to the National Assembly in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales (defined in section 155(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) as including “the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea”); in respect of waters beyond Wales these functions remain exercisable by the Ministers. By virtue of article 2(1) of the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Fisheries) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/1812) any remaining functions of the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales under section 30(2) of the 1981 Act were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and one or more named Secretaries of State (however described) acting jointly were transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and one or more Secretaries of State acting jointly by virtue of article 2(5) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794). The Sea Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/790) Schedule 2 paragraph 3, provides that the function in section 30(2) of the 1981 Act is to be exercised concurrently by the Department for Agriculture and Rural Development insofar as it relates to sea fishing within the Northern Ireland zone and to Northern Ireland fishing boats outside that zone.

[^f00003]: 1995 c. 21.

[^f00004]: OJ L56, 02.03.2005, p.8, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1805/2005 OJ L290, 04.11.2005, p.12.

[^f00005]: Subsection 30(2A) was inserted by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999, SI 1999/1820.

[^f00006]: As defined by section 1 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86).

[^f00007]: 1998 c. 47.

[^f00008]: 1999 c. 46.

[^f00009]: 1987 c. 49

[^f00010]: 1980 c. 43; section 78 was amended by sections 37 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).

[^f00011]: S.I. 1981/1675 (NI 26).

[^f00012]: 1995 c. 46.

[^f00013]: OJ No. L261, 20.10.93, p.1, as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 2870/95, Council Decision 95/528/EC of 5 December 1995, Council Regulation (EC) No 2489/96 of 20 December 1996, Council Regulation (EC) No 686/97 of 14 April 1997, Council Regulation (EC) No 2205/97 of 30 October 1997, Council Regulation (EC) No 2635/97 of 18 December 1997, Council Regulation (EC) No 2846/98 of 17 December 1998, Council Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 of 14 April 2003 and Council Regulation 1954/2003 of 4 November 2003.

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Editorial notes

[^key-e1cca96ea8e51505202602efc4595c00]: Order revoked (6.3.2015) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/191), art. 1(1), Sch.