2000 No. 976 (W. 46 )

SEA FISHERIES, WALES

The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Measures for the Recovery of the Stock of Cod)(Irish Sea) (Wales) Order 2000
Made
17th March 2000
Coming into force
18th March 2000
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 which are now vested in it, the National Assembly for Wales hereby makes the following Order:
1981 c. 29. See section 30(3) for the definitions of “enforceable Community restriction” (“cyfyngiad Cymunedol gorfodadwy”), “enforceable Community obligation” (“rhwymedigaeth Gymunedol orfodadwy”) and “the Ministers”, (“y Gweinidogion”) as modified by Schedule 2, paragraph 68(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820). Article 3(1) and Schedule 1 of the Scotland Act 1998 (Concurrent Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1592) provide for the functions exercisable under section 30(2) of the 1981 Act to be exercised by the Ministers, concurrently with Scottish Ministers, in relation to Scottish fishing boats within British fishery limits but outside the Scottish zone (for “the Scottish zone” see section 126 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) and the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1126)).
By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), the functions of Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with sea fishing in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland under section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) were, so far as they were exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales.