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

Interpretation

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 British fishing boat, the owner, master or charterer, if any, of the British 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.

(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).