The Razor Shells, Trough Shells and Carpet Shells (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 1276

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Razor Shells, Trough Shells and Carpet Shells (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998

Made

20th May 1998

Laid before Parliament

21st May 1998

Coming into force

23rd May 1998

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), 5A(1), 15(3) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

(1)

1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29); section 5A was inserted by section 103(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25); section 15(3) was substituted by paragraph 38(3) of Schedule 1 to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) and amended by paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86); section 22(1) contains definitions of “sea fish” and “shellfish”; section 22(2)(a), which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 5 and 15(3), was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).