Fisheries Act 1981

SCHEDULE 3 U.K. White Fish Authority and Herring Industry Board: Consequential Provisions

General U.K.

1 U.K. On the date of the coming into force of section 13(1) of this Act (“the transfer date”) all rights, obligations and property of the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board (“the existing bodies”) shall become rights, obligations and property of the Authority.

Staff and pensions U.K.

2 U.K. The rights and obligations transferred by paragraph 1 above include rights and obligations under contracts of employment with the officers and servants of the existing bodies; and in determining for the purposes of pension or redundancy the length of service of any person who by virtue of that paragraph becomes an officer or servant of the Authority his service with either of the existing bodies shall be treated as if it had been service with the Authority.

3 (1) Any pension scheme maintained by either of the existing bodies immediately before the transfer date shall on and after that date be treated as a scheme established by the Authority under paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to this Act. U.K.

(2) The Ministers may, with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, pay pensions, superannuation allowances or gratuities to or in respect of former members of either of the existing bodies.

Schemes of financial assistance U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 4-7 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 5 Group 6

Levies U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 4-7 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 5 Group 6

Lending limit U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 4-7 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 5 Group 6

Accounts U.K.

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Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 paras. 4-7 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 5 Group 6

Other statutory functions U.K.

8 (1) As from the transfer date the functions of the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board under— U.K.

(a) section 31(12) of the M1 Harbours Act 1964 (consultation on objections to ship, passenger and goods dues); and

(b) rule 124 of the M2 Fishing Vessels (Safety Provisions) Rules 1975 (appointment of inspectors and surveyors),

are transferred to the Authority, and those enactments are amended as follows,

(2) In section 31(12)—

(a) for “the White Fish Authority or the Herring Industry Board” there is substituted “ the Sea Fish Industry Authority ”; and

(b) for “the Authority or as the case may be the Board” there is substituted “ the Authority ”.

(3) In rule 124—

(a) for “the Sea Fish Industry Act 1970” there is substituted “ the Fisheries Act 1981 ”; and

(b) for “the the White Fish Authority or the Herring Industry Board” in the first place where those words occur, there is substituted “ the Sea Fish Industry Authority ” and in the second place where they occur, there is substituted “ or the Sea Fish Industry Authority ”.

(4) Anything which when this paragraph comes into force is in process of being done under section 31(12) by or in relation to the White Fish Authority or the Herring Industry Board may be continued by or in relation to the Authority; and any appointment under rule 124 made by either of those bodies before this paragraph comes into force shall have effect as if made by the Authority so far as is necessary for continuing its effect.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 3(6), 19–26, 28, 29, 35(2)–(7), 36(2), 37–39, 45, 46(2), Sch. 1 para. 10, Sch. 3 para. 8(2)(3), Sch. 5 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1964 c. 40.

M2 S.I. 1975/330.