The Marine Protected Areas (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 No. 292

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 292

Sea Fisheries

The Marine Protected Areas (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

1st November 2022

Coming into operation-

1st January 2023

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(1) and 124(1), (2) and (2A) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966(2), makes the following Regulations.

(1)

The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of S.I. 1999/283 and renamed the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.)), section 1(2).

(2)

1966 c.17 (N.I.); Section 124 was substituted by S.I. 1981/227 (N.I.7), Article 6, and relevant amendments were made by 2001 c.4 (N.I.) section 1 and S.I. 2002/790, Article 6(2). There is another amendment but it is not relevant.