Sea Fish Industry Act 1951

22 Amendment of 23 and 24 Geo. 5. c. 45, s.l

(1) Subsection (3) of section one of the Sea-Fishing Industry Act, 1933 (which provides that no order regulating the landing of foreign caught sea fish shall be made under that section unless orders made under sections two, three and four of that Act are in force), shall (subject to the next following subsection) cease to have effect on the day appointed under subsection (1) of section two of the White Fish and Herring Industries Act, 1948, for the commencement of the licensing powers conferred by that subsection (which relates to the licensing of British fishing boats in the North Sea).

(2) The Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument direct that the said subsection (3) shall cease to have effect on a date earlier than the day appointed as aforesaid, but not earlier than the date on which, in the opinion of the Ministers, adequate provision is or will be made either—

(a) for preventing over-fishing by vessels registered in Great Britain ; or

(b) for regulating the marketing of white fish landed in Great Britain.

(3) In this section—

(a) the expression " the Ministers " means the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Scotland and in Northern Ireland, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Minister of Food;

(b) the expression " white fish " has the same meaning as in Part I of this Act.