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Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996

As Enacted Cited authorities 2 Cited in Amendments 5 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1996/1035

1996 No. 1035

SEA FISHERIES

The Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996

Made 3rd April 1996

Laid before Parliament 3rd April 1996

Coming into Force 24th April 1996

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with sea fishing in Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 19761and now vested in them2and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—

S-1 Title and commencement

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996 and shall come into force on 24th April 1996.

S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2. In this Order—

“the Act” means the Fishery Limits Act 1976;

“ICES areas” means those statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea3which are referred to by their short names in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order and are described in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the reference to their short names, but excluding any part of those areas which is within 12 miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is measured or which is outside British fishery limits4.

S-3 Access to British fisheries

Access to British fisheries

3.—(1) The countries specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 of this Order are hereby designated for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Act (hereinafter called “the designated countries”).

(2) In relation to each of the designated countries there are hereby designated the ICES areas specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that country (hereinafter called “the designated areas”).

(3) The descriptions of sea fish for which the fishing boats registered in any of the designated countries may fish in any of the designated areas shall be those specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that area, which shall have effect subject to the Notes to that Schedule.

Tony Baldry

Minister of State,

Ministry of Agriculture,

Fisheries and Food

26th March 1996

Raymond Robertson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Scottish Office

27th March 1996

Rod Richards

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Welsh Office

3rd April 1996

Patrick Mayhew

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

28th March 1996

SCHEDULE 1

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1

Column 1

Column 2

ICES area

Description

IIa

The waters bounded by a line beginning at a point on the coast of Norway in 62°00' north latitude; thence due west to 4°00' west longitude; thence due north to 63°00' north latitude; thence due west to 11°00' west longitude; thence due north to 73°30' north latitude; thence due east to 30°00' east longitude; thence due south to 72°00' north latitude; thence due west to 26°00' east longitude; thence due south to the coast of Norway; thence in a westerly and south-westerly direction along the coast of Norway to the point of beginning.

IVa

The waters bounded by a line beginning at a point on the coast of Norway in 62°00' north latitude; thence due west to 4°00' west longitude; thence due south to the coast of Scotland; thence in an easterly and southerly direction along the coast of Scotland to a point in 57°30' north latitude; thence due east to 7°00' east longitude; thence due north to the coast of Norway; thence in a north-westerly direction along the coast of Norway to the point of beginning.

IVb

The waters bounded by a line beginning at a point on the west coast of Denmark in 57°00' north latitude; thence due west to 8°00' east longitude; thence due north to 57°30' north latitude; thence due west to the coast of Scotland; thence in a southerly direction along the coasts of Scotland and England to a point in 53°30' north latitude; thence due east to the coast of the Federal Republic of Germany; thence in a north-easterly direction along the coast of the Federal Republic of Germany to the western terminus of its boundary with Denmark; thence along the west coast of Jutland to Thyboron; thence in a southerly and easterly direction along the south coast of the Limfjord to Egensekloster Point; thence across the eastern entrance of the Limfjord to Hals; thence in a westerly direction along the north coast of Limfjord to the southernmost point of Agger Tange; thence in a northerly direction along the west coast of Jutland to the point of beginning.

IVc

The waters bounded by a line beginning at a point on the west coast of the Federal Republic of Germany in 53°30' north latitude; thence due west to the...

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