The Sea Fish (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) (Firth of Clyde) Order 2010

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 9

Sea Fisheries

Conservation Of Sea Fish

The Sea Fish (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) (Firth of Clyde) Order 2010

Made

20th January 2010

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

21st January 2010

Coming into force

14th February 2010

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1)(c) and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

(1)

1967 c.84 (“the 1967 Act”); section 5(1) was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29), section 22(1); section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c.77), section 22(5), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c.86), Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820), Schedule 2, paragraph 43(2)(b). Relevant modifications are contained in the Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1748), article 5 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756), articles 3, 5 and 6. The functions of the Secretary of State, in or as regards Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). Section 22(2) of the 1967 Act, which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 5 and 15(3), was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d), (3) and 45. The definition was modified in relation to Scotland by section 22A(12)(b) of the 1967 Act, as inserted by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(13).