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

Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act 1885 (c. 70)

6.—(1) The Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act 1885 is amended as follows.

(2) For “Secretary of State”, in each place where it appears except the second reference to that term in section 7, there is substituted “Scottish Ministers”.

(3) In section 2 (application), for “parts of the sea adjoining Scotland” there is substituted “Scottish zone; and in this Act, “the Scottish zone” has the same meaning as in the Scotland Act 1998”.

(4) In sections 5 (identification of steam trawlers fishing off Scotland), 6 (power to require statistics of sea fisheries)(1) and 7 (compensation)(2) for “any part of the sea adjoining Scotland” there is substituted “the Scottish zone”.

(5) In section 7, for “an officer of the Secretary of State” there is substituted “a member of the staff of the Scottish Administration”.

(1)

Section 6 was amended by the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), section 1(6)(b), the Secretaries of State Act 1926 (c. 18), section 1(3), S.R. & O. 1939/782, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), section 1(6), the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), section 1(1), S.I. 1955/554, the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 26, the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), section 289(4), (5) and (8), the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), section 2(8)(a).

(2)

Section 7 was amended by the Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 30), section 1(6)(b), the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 28, the Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), section 10(1), the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), section 4 and the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), section 2(8)(a).