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Amendments (Textual)
F1Ss. 1, 3–9 repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
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Amendments (Textual)
F2Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
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Amendments (Textual)
F3Ss. 1, 3–9 repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
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Amendments (Textual)
F4Ss. 10–15, 36(2) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
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Amendments (Textual)
F5Ss. 16, 36(1) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. II
(1)No enactment to which this section applies, and no order . . . F6 made (whether before or after the passing of this Act) under any such enactment, shall restrict the carrying on of any operations which, under the authority of one of the Ministers, are conducted for the purposes of scientific investigation, or for the purpose of transplanting sea-fish from one fishing ground to another, or shall restrict the landing of sea-fish caught in the course of any such operations.
(2)This section applies to [F7section 2 of the M1Fishery Limits Act 1976,] . . . F6
(3)Subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in addition to, and not in derogation of, any express saving or exemption contained in any enactment to which this section applies, or in any order . . . F6 made under such an enactment.
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Amendments (Textual)
F6Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
F7Words substituted by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 1 para. 36 and Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), s. 2(8)(c)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4S. 17: function of authorising operations in the N.I. zone made exercisable in or as regards N.I. for the purposes of 1998 c. 47, ss. 6, 86 and transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by S.I. 2002/790, art. 3(3), Sch. 3 para. 1
Marginal Citations
(1)The power conferred on the Ministers by section twenty-five of the M2Sea Fish Industry Act, 1951, to appoint officers to be British sea-fishery officers shall include power to appoint any officer to exercise and perform the powers and duties of a British sea-fishery officer subject to such limitations as may be specified in the instrument appointing him; and an officer so appointed shall be a British sea-fishery officer within those limitations, but not otherwise, and references in any enactment to British sea-fishery officers shall be construed accordingly.
(2)An appointment made in accordance with the preceding subsection may be limited in any one or more, or any combination, of the following ways, that is to say, by reference—
(a)to particular matters;
(b)to a particular area;
(c)to a particular order or class of orders.
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Amendments (Textual)
F8S. 18 repealed (prosp.) by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), s.23(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II
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Amendments (Textual)
F9Ss. 19–26 repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3
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F10S. 27, Sch. 1 repealed by Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40), Sch. 6
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F11S. 28 repealed by Docks and Harbours Act 1966 (c. 28), s. 39(2)
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Amendments (Textual)
F12Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
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F13Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I
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Amendments (Textual)
(1)In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15
[F16“land” includes land covered by water;]
“migratory trout” means trout which migrate to and from the sea;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17
“salmon” includes any fish of the salmon species;
“sea-fish” means fish of any description found in the sea, including shellfish and salmon and migratory trout;
“shellfish” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind, and includes any part of a shellfish and any (or any part of any) brood, ware, half-ware or spat of shellfish, and any spawn of shellfish, and the shell, or any part of the shell, of a shellfish, and references in this Act to shellfish of any particular description shall be construed accordingly;
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17
(2)In this Act . . . F18“the Ministers”—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F19
(b)in . . . F20 section eighteen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, F21. . ., and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Northern Ireland, and
(c) in section seventeen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, F22. . ., and the [F23Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland [F24and, in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers”, and any reference to one of the Ministers, means the Scottish Ministers].]
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25
(4)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F26
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Amendments (Textual)
F15Definitions repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3, Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch. and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F16Definition repealed (E.W.)(S.) by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3
F17Definitions repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3 and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F18Definition of “appropriate Minister” repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F19S. 33(2)(a) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch. and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F20Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
F21Words in s. 33(2)(b) repealed (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(a), Pt. IV
F22Words in s. 33(2)(c) repealed (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(b), Pt. IV
F23Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1963, No. 77, art. 4(2) and Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 8(1)
F24Words in s. 33(2)(c) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(c)
F25Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I
F26Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5 “The said Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Scotland
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Amendments (Textual)
(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F28
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F29
(3)Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that, subject to such extensions, adaptations and modifications (if any) as may be specified in the Order, the provisions of sections . . . F30 seventeen of this Act shall extend to the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands.
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Amendments (Textual)
F28Ss. 16, 36(1) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. II
F29Ss. 10-15, 36(2) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
F30Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
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Amendments (Textual)
F31S. 37, Sch. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI
This Act may be cited as the Sea Fish Industry Act 1962.
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