The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2007

Made: 19th March 2007

Laid before Parliament: 23rd March 2007

Coming into force: 20th April 2007

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PART 1 — Preliminary

Citation and commencement

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Extent and application

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Interpretation

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PART 2 — Days at Sea

Establishment of management periods for English fishing boats

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Deeming provisions in respect of certain management periods notified in the early period of 2007

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Offences in relation to management periods

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Allocation of days for fishing in the Cod Recovery Zone and Sole Recovery Zone

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Allocation of days – pair trawling

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Adjustment of the allocation of days

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Fishing in the early period of 2007, notification requirement and adjustment of allocation of days

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Offences in relation to allocation of days and other restrictions on presence in the Cod Recovery Zone and Sole Recovery Zone

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Transfer of days

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Offence in relation to transfers of days

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Offences in relation to fishing gears

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Maintenance of logbooks requirements and related offence

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PART 3 — Enforcement etc

Interpretation of Part 3

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Penalties and defence

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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 on land

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Warrants to enter premises

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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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Offences by corporate bodies

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Admissibility of documents in evidence

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Amendment

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Signed

Ben Bradshaw — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 19th March 2007

David Cairns — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Northern Ireland Office — 17th March 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order provides for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of Annex IIA and IIC (“the Annexes”) to Council Regulation (EC) No 41/2007 fixing for 2007 the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required (OJ No L 15, 20.1.2007, p.1) (“the Regulation”).

The Order contains provisions which create a management system for days at sea based on monthly entitlements and linked to management periods. Article 4 deals with the establishment of management periods. Article 6 contains offences in relation to management periods. Article 7 provides for the calculation of allocation of days for fishing in the Cod Recovery and Sole Recovery Zones which are defined in article 3 as covering the geographical areas covered by the Annexes. Article 8 provides for the calculation of the allocation of days when a fishing boat is involved in pair trawling. Articles 9 and 10 provide for the adjustment of allocations of days by the Secretary of State. Article 11 contains offences in relation to allocations of days and other restrictions on presence in the Cod Recovery and Sole Recovery Zones. Article 12 provides for transfers of days and article 13 contains an offence of giving false information in a notification made for the purpose of a transfer.

Article 14 creates offences in relation to restrictions in both Annexes on the carriage and operation of fishing gears and the combined use of regulated and unregulated gears. Article 15 contains provisions on, and an offence relating to, the maintenance of log-books.

Part 3 of the Order makes provision for enforcement. Article 17 deals with penalties and article 18 provides for the recovery of fines imposed, or treated as imposed, by a magistrates’ court.

Articles 19, 20 and 22 confer various powers on British sea-fishery officers including the power to enter premises, to go on board fishing boats, to stop and search vehicles transporting fish and to seize fish and fishing gear.

Article 27 revokes article 3 and Parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (Monitoring, Inspection and Surveillance) Order 2006, [S.I. 2006/1327](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1327); the provisions necessary to amend the Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2005 ([S.I. 2005/393](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/393)) are retained.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to the Annexes and this Order has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from Defra, Sea Fisheries Conservation Division, Area 7B, 3 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c.29. See section 30(3) for the definition of “the Ministers”.

[^f00002]: References to sections in this footnote are to sections of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29.) unless otherwise stated. Scotland: section 30(5) was inserted by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820), article 4 and Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 68(1), 5(b) (made under section 115 of, and paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule 7 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)). Section 30(5) provides that the definition of “the Ministers” in section 30(3) is amended so that, insofar as section 30(2) has effect in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers” means “the Scottish Ministers.” The Scotland Act 1998 (Concurrent Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1592), article 3(1) and Schedule 1, provide for the function exercisable under section 30(2) to be exercised by the Ministers concurrently with the Scottish Ministers in relation to, firstly, British fishing boats (other than Scottish ones) within the Scottish zone, and, secondly, Scottish fishing boats within British fishery limits but outside the Scottish zone. Wales: by virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2(a) and Schedule 1, the function exercisable under section 30(2) was transferred to the National Assembly insofar as exercisable in relation to Wales. “Wales” is 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”. Northern Ireland: by virtue of the Sea Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/790), article 3(2) Schedule 2, paragraph (3) (made, in this respect, under section 86(3)(b) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47)) the function conferred by section 30(2) within the Northern Ireland zone and outside that zone in relation to Northern Ireland fishing boats is transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (of Northern Ireland). By virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Fisheries) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/1812), article 2(1), the remaining functions of the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales under section 30(2) relevant to this Order 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 the one or more Secretaries of State acting jointly by virtue of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), article 2(5).

[^f00003]: See section 155(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38).

[^f00004]: 1976 c.86. See also S.I 1997/1750 and S.I. 1999/1741.

[^f00005]: 1998 c.47.

[^f00006]: 1998 c.46.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 15, 20.1.2007, p1, as amended by corrigendum OJ No L18, 25.1.2007, p.11

[^f00008]: Section 30(2A) was inserted by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications)(No.2) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/1820, art. 4 and Part I of Schedule 2, paragraph 68(1) and (5).

[^f00009]: OJ No L 276, 10.10.83, p.1, as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 473/89 of 24 February 1989, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2945/95 of 20 December 1995, Commission Regulation (EC) No 395/98 of 19 February 1998, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/98 of 13 July 1998, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2737/1999 of 21 December 1999, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1965/2001 of 8 October 2001 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1804/20005 of 3 November 2005.

[^f00010]: OJ No L 261, 20.10.93, p1, 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 Commission Regulation (EC) 768/2005 of 26 April 2005.

[^f00011]: 1995 c.21.

[^f00012]: S.I 1993/3138, amended by S.I. 1999/3206; there are other amending instruments, but none is relevant.

[^f00013]: 1968 c.77; section 7 is amended by sections 26(1) and 46(2) of, and Schedule 5, Part II of, the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29). There are other amendments but none is relevant.

[^f00014]: 1980 c.43; section 78 was amended by the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), section 109(1) and Schedule 8 paragraph 219(a).

[^f00015]: S.I. 1981/1675 (NI 26).

[^f00016]: 1995 c.46.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2006/1327.

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Editorial notes

[^key-4bc4127fb803339c3b6a2bf190d93b3b]: Order revoked (6.3.2015) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/191), art. 1(1), Sch.