Kent and Essex Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/1212 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 1212
SEA FISHERIES
The Kent and Essex 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 Kent and Essex 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 Kent and Essex 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 5 May 18902(which created the Kent and Essex 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: on the north, commencing at the point at which a line drawn seaward along the northern edge of the causeway situated opposite Lower Marine Parade at Dovercourt in the county of Essex intersects the line of mean low water (latitude 051 degrees 55.76 minutes north, longitude 001 degree 16.90 minutes east), a line drawn seaward on a bearing of 100 degrees true to the limit of the district above described, and a line drawn northwards from the said intersection along the boundary of the administrative county of Essex to its intersection with a line drawn across the River Stour along the seaward side of the railway bridge at Catterwade (latitude 051 degrees 57.06 minutes north, longitude 001 degree 03.49 minutes east) (being the southern boundary of the Eastern Sea Fisheries District); and, on the south, a line drawn true south-east from the old lighthouse at Dungeness (latitude 050 degrees 54.80 minutes north, longitude 000 degrees 58.26 minutes east), in the county of Kent (being the eastern boundary of the Sussex Sea Fisheries District).
The sea fisheries district shall not extend above a line drawn at or near the mouth of every river or stream flowing into the sea, or into any estuary, within the limits of the said district, as follows:
A line drawn across the River Stour, in the county of Kent, in continuation of a line drawn on a bearing of 090 degrees true from the chimney of the Richborough Power Station (latitude 051 degrees 18.57 minutes north, longitude 001 degree 20.88 minutes east) to the river;
A line drawn across the River Medway, on a bearing of 300 degrees true from Garrison Point (latitude 051 degrees 26.82 minutes...
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