The Scallop Dredging Operations (Tracking Devices) (Wales) Order 2012

Interpretation E+W

2.  In this Order—

“nominated receiver” (“derbynnydd enwebedig”) means the body nominated by the Welsh Ministers from time to time to receive the required information transmitted by a tracking device in accordance with this Order;

“person in charge” (“person sydd â gofal”) means, in relation to a [F1 fishing boat], the owner, master or charterer, if any, of the [F1 fishing boat] or the agent of any of them;

“port letters” (“llythrennau porthladd”) has the meaning given in regulation 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993(1);

“port number” (“rhif porthladd”) has the meaning given in regulation 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993;

“required information” (“yr wybodaeth ofynnol”) means the information set out in article 5;

“scallop” (“cregyn bylchog”) means shellfish of the species Pecten maximus;

“scallop dredge” (“llusgrwyd cregyn bylchog”) includes any appliance with a rigid framed mouth which is towed through the water and is manufactured, adapted, used or intended for use for the purpose of fishing for scallops;

“tracking device” (“dyfais olrhain”) means a device which is capable of transmitting the required information;

“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006(2); and

“WGS 84” (“WGS 84”) means the World Geodetic System revised in 1984 and further revised in 2004.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(2)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 2 in force at 1.11.2012, see art. 1(1)

(1)

S.I. 1993/3138. The definitions of “port letters” and “port number” in regulation 1 of S.I. 1993/3138 were amended by S.I. 1999/3206, regulations 2 and 3(a) and (d). There are other amendments to regulation 1 of S.I. 1993/3138 which are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

2006 c. 32. Section 158(1) was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), section 43(1) and (2).