The Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Amendment) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1374

RIVER, ENGLAND AND WALES

SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES

The Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Amendment) Order 1996

Made

23rd May 1996

Laid before Parliament

24th May 1996

Coming into force

29th May 1996

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980(1) and all other powers enabling them in that behalf; and, in accordance with section 1(2) of the Act, after consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council for England and the Countryside Council for Wales and such other persons as the Minister and the Secretary of State consider appropriate; and being of the opinion that the species of live fish to which this Order applies might compete with, displace, prey on or harm the habitat of any freshwater fish, shellfish or salmon in England and Wales, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 29th May 1996.

Amendment of principal Order

2.  For the Schedule to the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996(2) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.

Tony Baldry

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

23rd May 1996

Rod Richards

Parliamentary under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

22nd May 1996

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Article 2

“SCHEDULE PARTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN WHICH NO LICENCE IS REQUIRED TO KEEP CRAYFISH OF THE SPECIES PACIFASTACUS LENIUSCULUS

COLUMN 1	COLUMN 2	COLUMN 3
Postcode Areas	Town on which postcode area is centred	Postal districts in postcode area within which no licence is required
AL	St Albans	All
B	Birmingham	B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B10, B11, B13, B14, B15, B16, B17, B18, B19, B20, B21, B25, B27, B28, B29, B30, B31, B32, B38, B45, B47, B48, B49, B50, B60, B61, B62, B63, B64, B65, B66, B67, B68, B69, B70, B71, B80, B94, B95, B96, B97, B98
BA	Bath	All
BH	Bournemouth	BH1, BH2, BH3, BH4, BH5, BH6, BH7, BH8, BH9, BH10, BH11, BH12, BH13, BH14, BH15, BH16, BH17, BH18, BH19, BH20, BH21, BH22, BH31
BN	Brighton	All
BR	Bromley	All
BS	Bristol	All
CB	Cambridge	All
CM	Chelmsford	All
CO	Colchester	All
CR	Croydon	All
CT	Canterbury	CT5, CT19, CT20, CT21
CV	Coventry	CV1, CV2, CV3, CV4, CV5, CV6, CV8, CV21, CV22, CV23, CV31, CV32, CV33, CV34, CV35, CV36, CV37
DA	Dartford	All
DT	Dorchester	All
DY	Dudley	All
E	London E	All
EC	London EC	All
EN	Enfield	All
EX	Exeter	EX19, EX20, EX21, EX22, EX23, EX31, EX32, EX33, EX34, EX35, EX36, EX37, EX38, EX39
GL	Gloucester	GL1, GL2, GL3, GL4, GL5, GL6, GL7, GL8, GL9, GL10, GL11, GL12, GL13, GL14, GL18, GL19, GL20, GL50, GL51, GL52, GL53, GL54, GL55, GL56
GU	Guildford	All
HA	Harrow	All
HP	Hemel Hempstead	All
IG	Ilford	All
IP	Ipswich	IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4, IP5, IP6, IP7, IP8, IP9, IP10, IP11, IP24, IP26, IP27, IP28, IP29, IP30, IP31
KT	Kingston	All
LD	Llandrindod Wells	LD7, LD8
LE	Leicester	LE16
LU	Luton	All
ME	Maidstone	All
MK	Milton Keynes	All
N	London N	All
NG	Nottingham	NG33
NN	Northampton	All
NR	Norwich	NR17
NW	London NW	All
OX	Oxford	All
PE	Peterborough	PE1, PE2, PE3, PE4, PE5, PE6, PE7, PE8, PE9, PE10, PE11, PE12, PE14, PE15, PE16, PE17, PE18, PE19, PE20, PE30, PE31, PE32, PE33, PE34, PE37, PE38
PL	Plymouth	All
PO	Portsmouth and Isle of Wight	All
RG	Reading	All
RH	Redhill	All
RM	Romford	All
SE	London SE	All
SG	Stevenage	All
SL	Slough	All
SM	Sutton	All
SN	Swindon	All
SO	Southampton	SO14, SO15, SO16, SO19, SO20, SO22, SO31, SO32, SO51, SO52
SP	Salisbury	All
SS	Southend	All
SW	London SW	All
SY	Shrewsbury	SY1, SY2, SY3, SY4, SY5, SY6, SY7, SY8, SY9, SY10, SY11, SY15, SY16, SY17, SY21, SY22
TA	Taunton	TA1, TA2, TA5, TA6, TA7, TA8, TA9, TA10, TA11, TA12, TA13, TA14, TA15, TA16, TA17, TA18, TA19
TF	Telford	All
TN	Tunbridge Wells	TN1, TN2, TN3, TN4, TN5, TN6, TN7, TN8, TN9, TN10, TN12, TN13, TN14, TN15, TN16, TN17, TN18, TN19, TN20, TN21, TN22, TN28, TN29, TN30, TN31, TN32, TN33, TN34, TN35, TN36, TN37, TN38, TN39, TN40
TQ	Torquay	All
TR	Truro	All
TW	Twickenham	All
UB	Uxbridge	All
W	London W	All
WC	London WC	All
WD	Watford	All
WR	Worcester	All
WS	Walsall	WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4, WS5, WS6, WS8, WS9, WS10
WV	Wolverhampton	WV1, WV2, WV3, WV4, WV5, WV6, WV7, WV12, WV13, WV14, WV15, WV16”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which is made under section 1 of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980, and which comes into force on 29th May 1996, amends the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996 by substituting a new Schedule for the Schedule to that Order.

(1)

1980 c. 27; section 1(2) was amended by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 4), section 132(1)(a) and Schedule 9, paragraph 8; section 1(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 24), section 37(2); see section 4 for definitions of “the Minister”, “fish” and “shellfish”.

(2)

S.I. 1996/1104.