Sea Fish Industry Act 1962
1962 c.31
An Act to make further provision, by way of financial assistance and otherwise, with respect to the white fish and herring industries, including provision relating to the White Fish Authority and the Herring Industry Board; to make further provision for the regulation of fishing for, and the landing and commercial use of, sea-fish, and with respect to shellfish; to enable the charges leviable at certain harbours to be varied, and to facilitate borrowing for certain harbour and marine work undertakings; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[3rd July 1962]

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Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
Ss. 1, 3–9 repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt.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

2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I

3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Regulation of fishing for, and landing and commercial use of, sea-fish
Ss. 1, 3–9 repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt.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

10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 10–15, 36(2) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.

16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 16, 36(1) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. II

17 Exemption for operations for scientific and other purposes.
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S. 17 repealed (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with Sch. 4 para. 31)

18 Appointment of British sea-fishery officers.
(1) The power conferred on the Ministers by section twenty-five of the Sea 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.
1951 c. 30.
(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.
S. 18 repealed (prosp.) by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), s.23(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II

19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 19–26 repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3

Miscellaneous and supplementary provisions

27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 27, Sch. 1 repealed by Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40), Sch. 6

28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 28 repealed by Docks and Harbours Act 1966 (c. 28), s. 39(2)

29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I

31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I

32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 32 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

33 Interpretation.
(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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“land” 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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Definitions 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
Definition repealed (E.W.)(S.) by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3
Definitions repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3 and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
(2) In this Act . . . “the Ministers”—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 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
(b) in . . . section eighteen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Northern Ireland, and
Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
Words 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
(c) in section seventeen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and, in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers”, and any reference to one of the Ministers, means the Scottish Ministers.
Words 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
Words 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)
Words 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)
“The said Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Scotland
Definition of “appropriate Minister” repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I

34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 34, 35, Sch. 2 repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3, Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch., Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I

36 Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 16, 36(1) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. II
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 10-15, 36(2) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.
(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 . . . seventeen of this Act shall extend to the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands.
Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch.

37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 37, Sch. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI

38 Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Sea Fish Industry Act 1962.
SCHEDULE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 27, Sch. 1 repealed by Harbours Act 1964 (c. 40), Sch. 6
SCHEDULE 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 34, 35, Sch. 2 repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3, Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch., Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
SCHEDULE 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I
SCHEDULE 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 37, Sch. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI