The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999

Sea Fish Licensing Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/2633)

150.—(1) The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1992(1), is amended as follows.

(2) In article 2 (interpretation), there is inserted in the appropriate place–

““Scottish fishing boat” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Scotland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging.”.

(3) In article 3(1) (prohibition of fishing without a licence)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), the word “and” at the end is omitted; and

(b) for sub-paragraph (b) there is substituted–

“(b) in the case of Scottish fishing boats, by the Scottish Ministers; and

(c) in any other case, by one of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fish industry in Wales and Northern Ireland.”.

(1)

S.I. 1992/2633, amended by S.I. 1993/188 and S.I. 1993/2291.