The Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) (Revocation) (Wales) Order 2001

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2018 (W.139)

SEA FISHERIES, WALES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) (Revocation) (Wales) Order 2001

Made

17th May 2001

Coming into force

1st June 2001

The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 6(1) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

1967 c. 84. Section 1 was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) section 19(1), and was amended by paragraph 38(a) of Schedule 13 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) and paragraph 43(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820).

Section 6 was modified in its effect by section 33(1) of the 1981 Act and amended by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(6).

By virtue of article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions exercisable under section 6(1) of the 1967 Act were transferred to the National Assembly in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales (defined in section 155(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) as including “the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea”); in respect of waters beyond Wales these functions remain exercisable by the Ministers.

See section 22(2) of the 1967 Act for definitions of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 1 and 15(3). Section 22(2) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b) and (c) and by S.I. 1999/1820, paragraph 43(12) of Schedule 2