Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1992

7 Orders

(1) Section 20 of the [1967 c. 84.] Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (orders) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (5) for the words “subsection (6)” there shall be substituted the words “subsection (5A) or (6)”.

(3) After subsection (5) there shall be inserted—

“(5A) A principle of the kind to which subsection (5B) below applies shall not be included in any order under section 4(6C) of this Act which makes provision for principles of any other kind; but any statutory instrument containing a separate order providing for a principle of that kind shall not be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament.

(5B) This subsection applies to a principle providing for a reduction in the time which all vessels, or all vessels of any specified description, may spend at sea during any period by comparison with the time which they, or vessels of that description, were permitted to spend (or spent or were treated as spending) during a specified previous period (making any necessary adjustment where the periods are of different lengths); and for this purpose “description” means description framed by reference to size of vessel, method or area of fishing or description of fish.”