Sea Fish Industry Act 1962

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C1Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish

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C2Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish

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C3Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish

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F617 Exemption for operations for scientific and other purposes.U.K.

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Textual Amendments

18F7 Appointment of British sea-fishery officers.U.K.

(1)The power conferred on the Ministers by section twenty-five of the M1Sea 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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Marginal Citations

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Miscellaneous and supplementary provisionsU.K.

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33 Interpretation.U.K.

(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:—

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  • [F15land” includes land covered by water;]

  • migratory trout” means trout which migrate to and from the sea;

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  • 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;

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(2)In this Act . . . F17the Ministers”—

(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F18

(b)in . . . F19 section eighteen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, F20. . ., 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, F21. . ., and the [F22Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland [F23and, in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers”, and any reference to one of the Ministers, means the Scottish Ministers].]

(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F24

(4)(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F25

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F15Definition repealed (E.W.)(S.) by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3

F17Definition of “appropriate Minister” repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I

F22Words 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)

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C4 “The said Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Scotland

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36 Channel Islands and Isle of Man.U.K.

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(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 . . . F29 seventeen of this Act shall extend to the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands.

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38 Short title.U.K.

This Act may be cited as the Sea Fish Industry Act 1962.