Southern Sea Fisheries District Order 1989
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1989 No. 671
SEA FISHERIES
The Southern Sea Fisheries District Order 1989
16thApril 1989
17thApril 1989
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 the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1, 2(1) and (5) and 18(1) of the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966 (a) , and 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 Southern Sea Fisheries District Order 1989 and shall come into force the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) In this Order-
"the Act" means the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966;
"the quadrennial period" means the period of four years beginning on 1st July 1989 and every fourth anniversary of that day.
Sea Fisheries District
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 three 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 Langston 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, 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, 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 near Christchurch to a point distant two thousand feet therefrom, thence continued straight in a north-easterly direction to a point true south of, and distant two thousand feet from, the south-westernmost corner of the building known as Highcliffe Castle, and thence continued straight to such south-westernmost corner; A line at...
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