The Undersized Spider Crabs (Wales) Order 2002
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Title, commencement and application
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Interpretation
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Prescribed minimum size for landing spider crabs
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Powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats
SCHEDULE
MEASUREMENT OF THE SIZE OF A SPIDER CRAB
2002 No. 1897 (W.198)

SEA FISHERIES, WALES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Undersized Spider Crabs (Wales) Order 2002
Made
18th July 2002
Coming into force
5th August 2002
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 1(1) and (6) and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1967 c. 84. Section 1 was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) section 19(1), and was amended by paragraph 38(a) of Schedule 13 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21) and paragraph 43(2) and (3) of Schedule 2 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820). Section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1978 (c. 77) Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86) Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and S.I. 1999/1820, paragraph 43(2)(b). See section 22(2) for definitions of “the Ministers” for the purposes of section 1 and 15(3); section 22(2) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b) and (c) and by S.I. 1999/1820, paragraph 43(12) of Schedule 2. By virtue of article 2(a) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions exercisable under section 1 and 15(3) of the 1967 Act were transferred to the National Assembly in so far as exercisable in relation to Wales (defined in section 155(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38) as including “the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea”); in respect of waters beyond Wales these functions remain exercisable by the Ministers.