This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 1997/3054 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
1998 No. 207
SEA FISHERIES

The Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1998

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5(1), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 19671 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 26th February 1998.

Variation2.

(1)

The Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 19972 shall be varied in accordance with paragraph (2) of this article.

(2)

In article 2 paragraph (2) sub-paragraph (b), for the words “beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1998” there shall be substituted the words “beginning immediately before 28th February 1998 and ending immediately before 1st January 1999”.

Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Dubs
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order varies the Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997 to prohibit, during the period beginning immediately before 28 February 1998 and ending immediately before 1st January 1999, fishing for sole, plaice and certain other species of fish in certain sea areas.