The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983

Title and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983 and shall come into operation on 9th March 1983.

Interpretation

• 2.—(1) “ the baselines” means the baselines from which the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is measured as prescribed by the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964(1);

• “demersal fish” means all sea fish except salmon, migratory trout, mackerel, clupeoid fish, sand eels, Norway pout, smelts, eels, great weevers, crustaceans, and molluscs (other than squids);

(2) In this order all directions are related to the true compass.

Designation of countries, areas and descriptions of sea fish

3.  For the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with sea fishing in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales hereby designate:—

(a) all the countries specified in the first column of the Schedule to this order and

(b) in relation to each country so specified, the areas and descriptions of sea fish specified in the second and third columns respectively of the Schedule as the areas within British fishery limits within which, and the of sea fish for which, fishing boats registered in that country may fish.

Revocation

4.  The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1972(2) and the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1976(3) are hereby revoked.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 22nd February 1983.

(L.S)

Peter Walker,

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

George Younger,

Secretary of State for Scotland.

23rd February 1983.

James Prior,

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

24th February 1983.

Nicholas Edwards,

Secretary of State for Wales.

25th February 1983.