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The Undersized Crabs (Variation) Order 1989

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1.  This Order may be cited as the Undersized Crabs (Variation) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st February 1990.

Variation of the Undersized Crabs Order 1986

2.  The Undersized Crabs Order 1986(1) shall be varied—

(a)by substituting for article 5 thereof the following article:—

Prescribed minimum size for carriage of crabs on a British fishing boat.

5.(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (which prohibits the carriage on a British fishing boat of sea fish of any description which are of less than the minimum size prescribed in relation to sea fish of that description) there is hereby prescribed as the minimum size for edible crab a size of 125 mm.

(2) In the Cumbrian sea fisheries district(2) and in that area of sea lying within British fishery limits and between lines of latitude drawn through the easternmost points on the boundaries between Humberside and Lincolnshire in the North and Suffolk and Essex in the South the prescribed minimum size for edible crab for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act shall be 115mm..

(b)by substituting for the Schedule thereto the following Schedule:—

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