Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation (Variation) Order 1992
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1992/3108 |
| Year | 1992 |
1992 No.3108
SEA FISHERIESFISHERY LIMITS
The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation (Variation) Order 1992
Made 8th December 1992
Laid before Parliament 10th December 1992
Coming into force 31th December 1992
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State concerned with sea fishing in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales respectively, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1), 6(2) and 8 of the Fishery Limits Act 19761and now vested in them2and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation (Variation) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 31st December 1992.
Variation of the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983
2. The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 19833shall be varied by substituting for the definition of the baselines the following definition—
“the baselines” means the baselines as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 19644
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
3rd December 1992
Patrick Mayhew
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
3rd December 1992
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
8th December 1992
This note is not part of the Order
This Order varies the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983 (“the principal Order”) which designates, for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976, member States and the areas within British fishery limits within which, and descriptions of sea fish for which, fishing boats registered in each member State may fish. The principal Order implements Article 6 of, and Annex I to, Council Regulation (EEC) No. 170/83establishing a Community system for the conservation and management of fishery resources (OJNo. L24, 27.1.83, p.1).
This Order substitutes a new definition of “the baselines” in article 2 of the principal Order to comply with the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Re Territorial Sea: EC Commission v United Kingdom (Case 146/89) [1991] 3 CMLR 649.
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