Undersized Bass Order 1989
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1989/1285 |
| Year | 1989 |
1989No. 1285
SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH
The Undersized Bass Order 1989
25thJuly1989
7thAugust1989
1stJanuary1990
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1(1) and (6) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 ( a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and the said Minister, the said Secretaries of State and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 15(3) of the said Act and the said section 20(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:-
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Undersized Bass Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st January 1990.
(2) In this Order-
"the Act" means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;
"length" means length from the tip of the snout to the extreme end of the tail fin.
Revocation
2. The Immature Bass Order 1981 ( b) and the Immature Bass (Variation) Order 1983 ( c) are hereby revoked.
Size limit for landing bass
3. Subject to article 4 below, for the purpose of section 1(1) of the Act (which prohibits the landing in Great Britain of any sea fish of any description, being a fish of smaller size than such size as may be prescribed in relation to sea fish of that description) a length of 36 centimetres is hereby prescribed in relation to the landing of bass of the species Dicentrarchus labrax.
Exemption
4. Landing from fishing boats other than British fishing boats is exempted from the prohibition imposed by section 1(1) of the Act as read with article 3 of this Order.
Powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats
5.-(1) For the purpose of the enforcement of section 1 of the Act and article 3 of this Order a British sea-fishery officer may exercise in relation to any British fishing boat anywhere the powers conferred by paragraphs (2) to (4) of this Article.
(a) 1967 c.84; section 1 was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29), section 19(1); section 15 was amended by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c.77), Schedule 1, paragraph 38, the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c.86), Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and the Fisheries Act 1981, section 25(1) and (2); the...
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