Southern Sea Fisheries District (Constitution of Committee and Expenses) (Variation) Order 1997

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1997/1306
Year1997

1997 No. 1306

SEA FISHERIES

The Southern Sea Fisheries District (Constitution of Committee and Expenses) (Variation) Order 1997

Made 15th May 1997

Coming into force 16th May 1997

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, on the application of the local fisheries committee for the Southern Sea Fisheries District and after consultation with every council concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 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:

S-1 Title and commencement

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Southern Sea Fisheries District (Constitution of Committee and Expenses) (Variation) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 16th May 1997.

S-2 Variation of principal Order

Variation of principal Order

2.—(1) The Southern Sea Fisheries District Order 19892shall be varied in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

(2) For paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of article 2 there shall be substituted the following new paragraphs—

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2.—(1) There shall continue to be a sea fisheries district 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 from the baselines 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 east, a line drawn along the western side of the road-bridge leading from Langstone to Hayling Island in the county of Hampshire and continued from the southern extremity of the said bridge straight to the flagstaff of the Hayling Island coastguard station (latitude 50 degrees 46.90 minutes north, longitude 000 degrees 58.18 minutes west), and thence seawards in a true southerly direction, being the western boundary of the Sussex Sea Fisheries District; and on the west, a line drawn true south from the seaward extremity of the boundary between the counties of Dorset and Devon near Lyme Regis (longitude 2 degrees 56.70 minutes west), being the eastern boundary of the Devon Sea Fisheries District.

(2) Save as provided in article 2(3) below, 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, or of any estuary within the limits of the said district, as follows:—

A line at or near the mouth of the River Avon drawn true south-east from the south-easternmost corner of Haven House Inn, Mudeford Quay (latitude 50 degrees, 43.41 minutes north, longitude 001 degrees 44.40 minutes west) to a point 610 metres distant therefrom (latitude 50 degrees 43.18 minutes north, longitude 001 degrees 44.03 minutes west) thence continued straight in a north-easterly direction to a point (latitude 50 degrees...

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