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

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2729 (W.292)

SEA FISHERIES, WALES

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

Made

30 October 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

31 October 2012

Coming into force

1 November 2012

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(1) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968(1) which are now vested(2) in them.

(1)

1968 c. 77. Section 5(1) was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), sections 4(2), 5 and 9(1), Schedule 1, paragraph 3(1) and Schedule 2, paragraph 17(1), the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 24(2) and the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), section 17(3), Schedule 4, Part III and further amended by S.I. 1999/1820, article 4, Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 48(1) and (2). See section 19 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 for a definition of “the Ministers”; the definition of “the Ministers” in section 19 was amended by S.I. 1999/1820, article 4, Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 48(1), (5)(a), (b), (c)(i) and (ii) and (d).

(2)

By virtue of article 2(a) of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions exercisable under section 5 of the 1968 Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (as constituted under the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)) in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales provided that functions under section 5 relating to the identification and marking of fishing boats were exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales concurrently with any other Minister of the Crown by whom they are exercisable. Those functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).