Devon Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 1998
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1998 No. 1211
SEA FISHERIES
The Devon Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 1998
Made 6th May 1998
Coming into force in accordance with article 1(1)
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on the application of the local fisheries committee for the Devon Sea Fisheries District and after consultation with every council concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 18(1) of the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 19661and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has lain before Parliament for forty days prior to its being made:
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Devon Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 1998 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) In this Order “the principal order” means the order made by the Board of Trade on 31 March, 18922(which created the Devon Sea Fisheries District and constituted a local fisheries committee for the regulation of the sea fisheries within that district).
Variation of the principal order
2.—(1) For article 1 of the principal order (Creation of District) there shall be substituted the following:—
“Creation of District
1. A sea fisheries district is hereby created comprising so much of the sea within the national waters of the United Kingdom adjacent to England and so much of the sea within six nautical miles of the baselines (as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 19643, as amended by the Territorial Waters (Amendment) Order in Council 19794) from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to England is measured, with the adjoining coast, as lies within the following limits, namely:
(1) in the Bristol Channel, on the east, a line drawn true north from the seaward extremity of the boundary between the counties of Devon and Somerset near Countisbury Cove (latitude 051 degrees 13.90 minutes north, longitude 003 degrees 43.10 minutes west) and on the west, a line drawn true west from the seaward extremity of the boundary between the counties of Devon and Cornwall at Marsland Mouth (latitude 050 degrees 55.80 minutes north, longitude 004 degrees 32.70 minutes west) (being the boundary of the Cornwall Sea Fisheries District); which area may be cited as the northern section of the Devon Sea Fisheries District; and
(2) in the English Channel, on the west, a line drawn true south from the seaward extremity of Rame Head (latitude 050 degrees 18.68 minutes north, longitude 004 degrees 13.25 minutes west) in the county of Cornwall (being the boundary of the Cornwall Sea Fisheries District) and, on the east, a line drawn true south from the seaward extremity of the boundary between the counties of Devon and Dorset near Lyme Regis (latitude 050 degrees 43.12 minutes north, longitude 002 degrees 56.70 minutes west) (being the western boundary of the Southern Sea Fisheries District); which area may be cited as the southern section of the Devon Sea Fisheries District.
The said district shall extend northwards to the equi-distant line drawn between the northern coast of the county of Devon and the opposite coast of South Wales, and shall include so much of the sea within six nautical miles of the baselines (as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964, as amended by the Territorial Waters (Amendment) Order in Council 1979) from which the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent...
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