Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967

20 Orders

(1) Any power conferred by this Act to make an order includes power to vary or revoke the order by a subsequent order.

(2) Any power conferred by section 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 or 15 of this Act to make an order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(3) A statutory instrument containing an order made under the said section 1, 3 or 8, and a statutory instrument containing an order made under the said section 15 in relation to the said section 1 or 3 or an order thereunder, shall be laid before Parliament.

(4) A statutory instrument containing an order made under the said section 8 shall cease to have effect on, the expiration of a period of twenty-eight days beginning with the date on which it is made unless before the expiration of that period it has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, but without prejudice to anything previously done under the instrument or to the making of a new statutory instrument.

In reckoning for the purpose of this subsection any period of twenty-eight days, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, or during which the House of Commons is adjourned for more than four days.

(5) A statutory instrument containing an order made under section 4, 5 or 6 of this Act, and a statutory instrument containing an order made under section 15 thereof in relation to any of those sections or an order thereunder, except a statutory instrument to which subsection (6) below applies, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(6) Where an order under section 5(1) of this Act is made so as to have effect in relation to salmon or migratory trout (whether it is made so as to have effect in relation to any other description of fish or not), then, if the order contains a statement in accordance with subsection (3) of that section, the statutory instrument containing the order shall be of no effect unless it is approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(7) As soon as may be after the making of any of the following orders, that is to say, an order under section 1, 3, 6 or 8 of this Act and an order under section 15 thereof relating to the said section 1 or 3 or an order thereunder, the authority making the order shall, in such manner as that authority thinks best for informing persons concerned, publish a notice stating that the order has been made and specifying the place where copies of the order may be purchased.