The South Wales Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 2003

Name, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order is called the South Wales Sea Fisheries District (Variation) Order 2003 and comes into force on 30th November 2003.

(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the order made by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries on 27th June 1912(1) (which created the South Wales Sea Fisheries District and constituted a local fisheries committee for the regulation of the sea fisheries within that District).

Amendments to the principal Order

2.  The principal Order is amended in accordance with articles 3 to 5 below.

3.  For article 7 (constitution of committee) there is substituted the following —

“7.   The committee shall be a joint committee of the county and county borough councils referred to in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and shall consist of twenty one members appointed as follows —

(a) the number of members appointed by each constituent council shall be the number indicated in relation to the council in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order ;

(b) nine members appointed by the National Assembly for Wales;

(c) one member appointed by the Environment Agency.”.

4.  For article 17 (expenses) there shall be substituted the following —

“Expenses

17.   The expenses of the Committee, other than those which may be required to be incurred under section 17(2) of the Act, shall be chargeable jointly to the constituent councils in the proportions set out in Column 3 of the Schedule to this Order opposite the reference to each constituent council and shall be expenses for general county or county borough purposes.”.

5.  For the Schedule there is substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(2)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

26th November 2003