The Fishing Boats (Satellite-tracking Devices) (Scotland) Scheme 2012

Satellite-tracking device grants

3.—(1) Any person who owns a registered fishing boat which—

(a) measures more than 12 metres overall in length, but no more than 15 metres overall in length;

(b) is a Scottish based fishing boat; and

(c) meets such other eligibility criteria as the Scottish Ministers may have determined and published in the notice referred to in paragraph 4(4),

is eligible to make an application to the Scottish Ministers in respect of that fishing boat for a grant equal to the costs specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the costs are—

(a) the cost of purchasing a satellite-tracking device from the authorised provider;

(b) the cost of purchasing a three year warranty in respect of the satellite-tracking device from the authorised provider; and

(c) the cost of having the authorised provider install the satellite-tracking device on board the fishing boat in respect of which the application is made.

(3) The cost specified in sub-paragraph (2)(c) does not include any cost wholly or partly incurred in respect of the concealment of the satellite-tracking device, its associated cables and wires, or any other associated materials or equipment, for cosmetic purposes.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph—

“port of administration” means the port from which the licence granted in respect of a fishing boat under section 4 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) is issued;

“port of registration” means the port at which the fishing boat is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(2); and

“Scottish based fishing boat” means a fishing boat, the port of administration and port of registration of which are, at the date of the application relating to the fishing boat, a port in Scotland.

(1)

1967 c.84. Section 4 was amended by the Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 12), schedule 1, paragraph 3(a) and by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c.23), sections 4(6) and 197.

(2)

1995 c.21.