The Sea Fish (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing Method) (Wales) Order 2012

Revocation and Consequential Amendment

4.—(1) Byelaw 21 (Prohibition of Bottom Towed Fishing Gear)(1) of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee(2) is revoked in relation to Wales.

(2) In the Table in Schedule 4 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010(3) the row relating to Byelaw 21 is deleted.

(1)

From 1 April 2010, Byelaw 21 of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee has effect as if made by the Welsh Ministers in a statutory instrument in relation to the same area of Wales as the area to which that byelaw originally applied by virtue of article 13(3) of and Schedule 4 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/630 (C.42)).

(2)

The North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee was dissolved, in relation to Wales, on 1 April 2010 when article 3 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/630 (C.42)) brought into force section 187 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), with the effect of repealing the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966 (c. 38).

(3)

S.I. 2010/630 (C.42).