The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Measures for the Recovery of the Stock of Cod)(Irish Sea) (Wales) Order 2000

Made: 17th March 2000

Coming into force: 18th March 2000

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Title, commencement 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 on land

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

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Powers of other officers

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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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Proceedings

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Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents

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Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998.

D. Elis Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 2000-03-17

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 29. See section 30(3) for the definitions of “enforceable Community restriction” (“cyfyngiad Cymunedol gorfodadwy”), “enforceable Community obligation” (“rhwymedigaeth Gymunedol orfodadwy”) and “the Ministers”, (“y Gweinidogion”) as modified by Schedule 2, paragraph 68(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820). Article 3(1) and Schedule 1 of 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 Scottish fishing boats within British fishery limits but outside the Scottish zone (for “the Scottish zone” see section 126 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) and the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1126)).

[^f00002]: By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), the functions of Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with sea fishing in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland under section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) were, so far as they were exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales.

[^f00003]: 1995, c. 21.

[^f00004]: OJ No. L.35, 10.02.2000, p.10.

[^f00007]: OJ No. L125, 27.4.98, p.1, as last amended by Council regulation (EC) No. 2723/99 (OJ No. L328, 22.12.99, p.9).

[^f00008]: The territorial sea adjacent to Wales is determined in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 47) and with any provisions made, or having effect as if made, under that section. The boundary between those parts of the sea within the Severn and Dee Estuaries which are to be treated as being territorial seas adjacent to Wales, and those which are not, is determined in accordance with article 6 and Schedule 3 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

[^f00009]: 1998, c. 38

[^f00010]: 1980, c. 43; the maximum fines in section 78 were converted to levels on the standard scale by sections 37 and 46 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).

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

[^f00012]: 1995, c. 46.

Editorial notes