The Menai Strait (East) Mussel and Oyster Fishery Order 2022

PART 4 Miscellaneous provisions

Duty to keep publicly available an illustrative map of the Order area

22.  Within 7 days of making a designation under article 4, or a cancellation of a designation under article 6, the Grantee must produce and make available for inspection on its website and at its registered office an illustrative map of the Order area which must include the boundary between the several fishery area and the regulated fishery area.

Accounts of income and expenditure, other information and inspection

23.—(1) The Grantee must by 31 July each year provide to the Welsh Ministers annual accounts of its income and expenditure under this Order for the preceding financial year.

(2) The Grantee must allow persons authorised by the Welsh Ministers to inspect any accounts or other documents relating to this Order in the possession of the Grantee, and must give that person any further information relating to those matters, which that person may reasonably require.

(3) The Grantee must allow persons authorised by the Welsh Ministers to inspect the Order area.

Catch return

24.—(1) The Grantee must submit a catch return to the Welsh Ministers —

(a) for the period between 2 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, on or before 30 April 2023; and

(b) thereafter, for each period of time between 1 April and the following 31 March, on or before the 30 April in the same year in which that time period ends.

(2) A catch return must record—

(a) the annual total live weight of seed of the specified species laid down in the regulated fishery area and in the several fishery area;

(b) the location from which that seed was sourced;

(c) the annual total live weight of the specified species taken from both the several fishery area and from the regulated fishery area; and

(d) any further information as may be reasonably requested in writing by the Welsh Ministers.

Marking out of the Order area

25.—(1) The Grantee must, in such manner as the Welsh Ministers may from time to time request, mark out—

(a) the Order area or any part of it; and

(b) the boundary between the several fishery area and the regulated fishery area.

(2) Prior to a request to mark out, the Welsh Ministers must consult—

(a) Caernarfon Harbour Trust(1); and

(b) the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond(2).

(3) The Grantee must maintain markings in position and in good repair.

Rights of landowners

26.  Nothing in this Order, or in any restriction imposed under it, or regulation made under it, affects prejudicially any rights, powers and authority of —

(a) a person who owns part of the Order area; or

(b) a person to whom such a person has granted a lease in respect of a part of the Order area.

Rights of statutory undertakers

27.  Nothing in this Order, or in any restriction imposed under it, or in any regulation made under it, affects prejudicially the lawful activities of a statutory undertaker exercising its statutory functions.

Revocation

28.  The Menai Strait Oyster and Mussel Fishery Order 1962(3) and the Menai Strait Oyster and Mussel Fishery (Amendment) Order 1964(4) are revoked.

(1)

https://www.caernarfonharbour.org.uk/

(2)

https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/

(3)

S.I. 1962/705.

(4)

S.I. 1964/550.