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SCHEDULE 4UK STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

Dee Estuary Cockle Fishery Order 2008

300.—(1) Article 2 is amended as follows.

(2) In the appropriate place insert—

“England” includes the sea adjacent to England, not forming any part of Wales, to a distance of 12 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured;.

(3) For the definition of “the grantee” substitute—

“the grantee” means the Environment Agency in relation to England and the Natural Resources Body for Wales in relation to Wales;.

(4) In the appropriate place insert—

“Wales” has the meaning given by section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006(1).”

(1)

2006 c. 32. The boundary between the sea adjacent to Wales and that adjacent to England is described by article 6 of and Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). By virtue of section 162 of and paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to the 2006 Act, S.I. 1999/672 continues to have effect.