The Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1983

Statutory Instruments

1983 No. 59

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1983

Made

24th January 1983

Laid before Parliament

25th January 1983

Coming into Operation

14th February 1983

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5(1) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:—

Title and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1983 and shall come into operation on 14th February 1983.

Variation of principal order

2.  In article 3 of the Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1972(2) and in article 3 of the Salmon and Migratory Trout (North-East Atlantic) Order 1972(3) the words from the beginning to “both days inclusive,” shall be deleted.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 24th January 1983.

L.S.

Peter Walker

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

George Younger

Secretary of State for Scotland

24th January 1983

James Prior

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

24th January 1983

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

24th January 1983

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This order varies the Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1972 and the Salmon and Migratory Trout (North-East Atlantic) Order 1972 by removing the time limit at the end of which those orders were to expire.

(1)

section 5(1) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 22(1).

(2)

S.I. 1973/188.

(3)

S.I. 1973/189.