The Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 81

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000

Made

16th March 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

17th March 2000

Coming into force

31st March 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(1), 15(3) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 31st March 2000.

(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

Revocation

2.  The Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) Order 1986(2) is hereby revoked.

JOHN HOME ROBERTSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

16th March 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Crab Claws (Prohibition of Landing) Order 1986 (“the 1986 Order”) (article 2). The 1986 Order prohibited the landing of crab claws in the United Kingdom if they have been detached from edible crab claws (Cancer pagurus) caught within British fishery limits.

Provisions relating to the retention on board and the landing of edible crabs and detached claws can now be found in Article 18.4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 850/98 (O.J. No. L125, 27.04.98, p.1), laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources. These are implemented by the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Conservation Measures) (Scotland) Order 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/53).

(1)

1967 c. 84; section 6 was modified in its effect by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 33(1) and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraph 7; section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), section 22(5) and Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and was further amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820) (the “1999 S.I.”), Schedule 2, paragraph 43; section 20 was amended by the 1999 S.I.; section 22(2) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45 and by the 1999 S.I. See section 22(2) for definitions of “the Ministers” which are relevant to the exercise of the powers under which this Order is made. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1986/496.