Fish Health (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS OF THE FISH HEALTH REGULATIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1998

1.  In regulation 9—

(a) there shall be inserted after paragraph (2) the following paragraph—

“(2A) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not relay any live molluscs, eggs or gametes from any part of the area referred to in Schedule 7 in any other place or area within Northern Ireland unless he has been authorised to do so in writing by the Department.”;

(b) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (2A) shall not apply to the relaying of live molluscs, eggs or gametes when they are relaid in an approved storage centre.”; and

(c) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(5) For the purposes of this regulation any reference to eggs or gametes means the eggs or gametes of molluscs.”.

2.  After Schedule 6 there shall be inserted the following Schedule—

Regulation 9

“SCHEDULE 7 RESTRICTED AREAS (MOLLUSCS)

The areas of waters comprising tidal waters (whether forming part of the sea or not) within the seaward limits of the territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland which lie between or within that part of Lough Foyle bounded by the high water mark and enclosed by an imaginary straight line drawn between the high water mark of Greencastle Fort in the County of Donegal to the high water mark at Martello Tower at Magilligan Point in the County of Londonderry.”.